What does OYSter mean?

Definitions for OYSter
ˈɔɪ stəroys·ter

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. oysternoun

    marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters

  2. huitre, oysternoun

    edible body of any of numerous oysters

  3. oysterverb

    a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl

  4. oysterverb

    gather oysters, dig oysters

Wiktionary

  1. oysternoun

    Any marine bivalve mollusk of the Family Ostreidae, usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.

  2. oysternoun

    A name popularly given to the delicate morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.

  3. oysternoun

    A person who keeps secrets and private information to him- or herself.

  4. oysterverb

    To fish for oysters.

  5. oysteradjective

    Of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.

  6. Etymology: ostre, from ostrea; reinforced or superseded in by oistre, from oistre, uistre (modern French huître), also from ostrea, from ὄστρεον.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Oysternoun

    A bivalve testaceous fish.

    Etymology: oester, Dutch; huitre, Fr.:

    I will not lend thee a penny ——
    —— Why then the world’s mine oyster which
    I with sword will open. William Shakespeare, Merr. W. of Wind.

    Rich honesty dwells like your miser, sir, in a poor house;
    as your pearl in your foul oyster. William Shakespeare.

    Another mass held a kind of oyster shell, and other bivalves. John Woodward, on Fossils.

    There may be as many ranks of beings in the invisible world superior to us, as we are superior to all the ranks of being in this visible world; though we descend below the oyster to the least animated atoms discovered by microscopes. Isaac Watts, Improv. of the Mind.

    Where oyster tubs in rows
    Are rang’d beside the posts, there stay thy haste. John Gay.

Wikipedia

  1. Oyster

    Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats. In some species, the valves are highly calcified, and many are somewhat irregular in shape. Many, but not all oysters are in the superfamily Ostreoidea. Some types of oysters are commonly consumed (cooked or raw), and in some locales are regarded as a delicacy. Some types of pearl oysters are harvested for the pearl produced within the mantle. Windowpane oysters are harvested for their translucent shells, which are used to make various kinds of decorative objects.

ChatGPT

  1. oyster

    An oyster is a type of marine bivalve mollusk that lives in coastal saltwater habitats. They are known for their irregularly shaped hard, rough shells that close tightly to protect the soft-bodied animal inside. Frequently cultivated for food, some species produce pearls, a result of the oyster coating a foreign substance in its shell with layers of nacre. Oysters play important roles in their ecosystems by filtering water and providing habitat for other species. They are commonly consumed raw, or cooked in a variety of dishes.

Wikidata

  1. Oyster

    The word oyster is used as a common name for a number of distinct groups of bivalve molluscs which live in marine or brackish habitats. The valves are highly calcified. Some kinds of oysters are commonly consumed, cooked or raw, by humans as a delicacy. Other kinds, such as pearl oysters, generally not eaten by humans, are harvested for the pearl produced within the mantle.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Oyster

    ois′tėr, n. a well-known bivalve shellfish, used as food.—ns. Oys′ter-bank, -bed, -farm, -field, -park, a place where oysters breed or are bred; Oys′ter-catch′er, the sea pie—a sea wading bird of the family Hæmatopodidæ, having dark plumage and red bill and feet; Oys′ter-fish′ery, the business of catching oysters; Oys′ter-knife, a knife for opening oysters.—n.pl. Oys′ter-pat′ties, small pies or pasties made from oysters.—n. Oys′ter-shell, the shell of an oyster.—n.pl. Oys′ter-tongs, a tool used to dredge up oysters in deep water.—ns. Oys′ter-wench, -wife, -wom′an, a woman who vends oysters. [O. Fr. oistre (Fr. huître)—L. ostrea—Gr. ostreon, an oyster—osteon, a bone.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. OYSTER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Oyster is ranked #33990 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Oyster surname appeared 669 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Oyster.

    97.7% or 654 total occurrences were White.
    1.2% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Anagrams for OYSter »

  1. storey

  2. Troyes

  3. rosety

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of OYSter in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of OYSter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of OYSter in a Sentence

  1. Edward Thom:

    Traditionally, we have discharged waste into Dornoch Firth, what we now do is remove 97 % of the waste product prior to it being discharged. The remaining 3 % is then cleaned by the oyster beds that we're currently planting as part of The DEEP project.

  2. Chris Nelson:

    There's no question the spill had tremendous effect on oyster production in Louisiana and Mississippi, but it's hard to say what exactly was caused by the oil and what wasn't, there's no smoking gun.

  3. Jonathan Swift:

    He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

  4. Peter Stein:

    We’ve had some very terrible effects on the industry because restaurants just shut down, when restaurants shut down, so do oyster farms, because we just don’t have any customers for the oysters that we’re producing.

  5. Victor Hugo:

    From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

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