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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place where oysters breed or are raised.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An oyster-bank; a place where oysters breed or are bred; a place prepared and sown or planted with spat.
- noun A bed, layer, or stratum containing fossil oysters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place on the
seabed where oysters aregrown to beharvested
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a workplace where oysters are bred and grown
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