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oyster bed
Word definitions for oyster bed in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ There are few clearings in an elm forest and few vacancies on an oyster bed .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a workplace where oysters are bred and grown [syn: oyster bank , oyster park ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A place on the seabed where oysters are grown to be harvested
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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.