Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Greenness of the gills of an oyster; the state of an oyster known as greening.
- noun A green-gilled oyster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
oyster which has thegills tinged with agreen pigment , said to be due to anabnormal condition of theblood .
Etymologies
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green + gill
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