Crossword clues for oyster bed
oyster bed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oyster \Oys"ter\ (ois"t[~e]r), n. [OF. oistre, F. hu[^i]tre, L. ostrea, ostreum, Gr. 'o`streon; prob. akin to 'ostre`on bone, the oyster being so named from its shell. Cf. Osseous, Ostracize.]
(Zo["o]l.) Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. The common European oyster ( Ostrea edulis), and the American oyster ( Ostrea Virginiana), are the most important species.
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A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl. Fresh-water oyster (Zo["o]l.), any species of the genus Etheria, and allied genera, found in rivers of Africa and South America. They are irregular in form, and attach themselves to rocks like oysters, but they have a pearly interior, and are allied to the fresh-water mussels. Oyster bed, a breeding place for oysters; a place in a tidal river or other water on or near the seashore, where oysters are deposited to grow and fatten for market. See 1st Scalp, n. Oyster catcher (Zo["o]l.), See oystercatcher in the vocabulary. Oyster crab (Zo["o]l.) a small crab ( Pinnotheres ostreum) which lives as a commensal in the gill cavity of the oyster. Oyster dredge, a rake or small dragnet for bringing up oysters from the bottom of the sea. Oyster fish. (Zo["o]l.)
The tautog.
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The toadfish. Oyster plant. (Bot.)
A plant of the genus Tragopogon ( Tragopogon porrifolius), the root of which, when cooked, somewhat resembles the oyster in taste; salsify; -- called also vegetable oyster.
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A plant found on the seacoast of Northern Europe, America and Asia ( Mertensia maritima), the fresh leaves of which have a strong flavor of oysters.
Oyster plover. (Zo["o]l.) Same as oystercatcher.
Oyster shell (Zo["o]l.), the shell of an oyster.
Oyster wench, Oyster wife, Oyster women, a women who deals in oysters.
Pearl oyster. (Zo["o]l.) See under Pearl.
Thorny oyster (Zo["o]l.), any spiny marine shell of the genus Spondylus.
Wiktionary
n. A place on the seabed where oysters are grown to be harvested
WordNet
n. a workplace where oysters are bred and grown [syn: oyster bank, oyster park]
Usage examples of "oyster bed".
The colonists had paid visits also to the oyster bed, the warren, the coal and iron mines, and to the till then unexplored districts of the Far West forest, which abounded in game.
As did Wren's, her lips parted reluctantly, like waters protecting an oyster bed, to slowly disclose the aquatic shelf of bright teeth behind them, and in the girl's eyes there fluttered illuminated parchments upon which intelligent things were written, things that Alobar could scarcely hope to read.
Rus Poultrez flipped a speedboat over an oyster bed and slammed upside down into the water.
Moistening a washcloth with ice-cold water, she draped it across her forehead and flung herself prostrate onto Tyber's oyster bed.
The only water hazard was an oyster bed, so shallow you could only drown there in a prone position.
People don't wear signs, and being dropped into a strange area is like a starfish landing on a strange oyster bed.