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oyster

/oi-ster/US // ˈɔɪ stər //UK // (ˈɔɪstə) //

牡蛎,牡蛎类,牡丹,牡蛎类的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
    • : the oyster-shaped bit of dark meat in the front hollow of the side bone of a fowl.
    • : Slang. a closemouthed or uncommunicative person, especially one who keeps secrets well.
    • : something from which a person may extract or derive advantage: The world is my oyster.
    • : oyster white.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to dredge for or otherwise take oysters.

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Examples

  • Crisp up some oysters as you listen carefully to them sizzle, then serve them over some garlicky rice.

  • With the solar-powered barge, workers wouldn’t have to hoist large cages of oysters from the water, for instance, Rice said.

  • I think it’s nice to have a little tradition, like my grandma’s oyster soup, and put that next to the crudo and say they both stand up next to each other.

  • Just before serving, add the oysters to the soup and raise the heat to medium.

  • Though it has no electricity or plumbing, the biologists use it for their annual spring shad bakes and fall oyster roasts.

  • If you want to be a human being, and a popular human being, then you have to stop being an oyster and come out of your shell.

  • What a sauce that is,” he enthused, “which dresses an oyster I suck from the mouth of the woman I love!

  • I added a few impossible positions, just to have a little fun, like the Swan Flying over the Oyster Shell.

  • A television series, Mama, was broadcast from a studio above The Oyster Bar beginning in 1949.

  • Other, greener options, like wetland restoration or oyster reefs, could also help slow waves before they reach the city.

  • From pre-natal days I was destined for the railway service, as an oyster to its shell.

  • But, before they can be used for this purpose, these leaves are coated with lime made from oyster shells and then folded up.

  • The tent on the east shore of the entrance of Oyster Harbour.

  • The recovery of the oyster, clam and other edible shell-fish is also a feature of the work which the Lake Company has in view.

  • He looks as pale as the visard of the ghost which cries so miserably at the Theatre, like an oyster-wife, "Hamlet, revenge!"