Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling an oyster; of or pertaining to the Ostracea. Also ostraceous, ostreaceous.
- noun A member of the Ostracea; an oyster. Also
ostracine .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of a
family ofbivalves of which theoyster is thetype .
Etymologies
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Latin ostrea an oyster. See oyster.
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