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Park :: Park (n.) A partially inclosed basin in which oysters are grown.

Wash :: Wash (n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters..

Tautog :: Tautog (n.) An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll..

Picking :: Picking (n.) The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.

Fierasfer :: Fierasfer (n.) A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian..

Scallop :: Scallop (n.) To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below..

Ostracea :: Ostracea (n. pl.) A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells.

Avicula :: Avicula (n.) A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typical species to a bird..

Bivalve :: Bivalve (a.) Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels..

Exogyra :: Exogyra (n.) A genus of Cretaceous fossil shells allied to oysters.

Oysterling :: Oysterling (n.) A young oyster.

Entree :: Entree (n.) In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc..

Uptails All :: Uptails all () Revelers; roysterers.

Layer :: Layer (n.) An artificial oyster bed.

Ruche :: Ruche (n.) A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn..

Plant :: Plant (n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth..

Stew :: Stew (v. t.) To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples..

Drome :: Drome (n.) The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher..

Eye :: Eye (n.) The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the scallop..

Ostriferous :: Ostriferous (a.) Producing oysters; containing oysters.

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