Definitions for ostreidae
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Princeton's WordNet
Ostreidae, family Ostreidae(noun)
oysters
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Ostreidae
A family of marine mollusks in the class BIVALVIA, commonly known as oysters. They have a rough irregular shell closed by a single adductor muscle.
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