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bluepoint

n. 1 A small oyster, (taxlink Crassostrea virginica species noshow=1), from the eastern United States seaboard 2 A colourpoint cat with blue markings.

WordNet
bluepoint
  1. n. oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw [syn: blue point]

  2. small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island [syn: blue point]

Usage examples of "bluepoint".

The other requirement was that we had to mind their cat, a beautiful but nervous bluepoint male Himalayan that took a liking to me and nobody else.

They could take the rest of the day and drive down to Cypremort Point for bluepoint crabs and a view of the gulf at sunset.

Laurel poked at her sea bass and thought longingly of bluepoint crabs and the colors of the Gulf sky at sunset, the sound of the sea and gulls, the tang of salt air.

He was a widower and lived alone except for a ten-kilo purebred, bluepoint Ragdoll cat named Max.

But Alice had long ago evinced a passion for bluepoints, and so I had ordered them to humor her as a kind of token that while I might be stern and ruthless within the walls of the Snuggery, here in my own quarters as her domesticated husband-to-be, I was the very soul of thoughtfulness.

Occasionally Rhiow had secretly followed Urruah down to the restaurant’s pedestrian-service window after finishing work, and had seen him stand there in line with the other commuters—provoking much amused comment—and then wheedle bluepoints out of one of the window staff, a big broad blond lady, by force of purr alone.

I can forgive mankind for destroying the dodo, but not for blotting out bluepoints.

I detoured down the ramp to the Oyster Bar and ordered a dozen bluepoints on the half-shell.