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n. (pearl oyster English)
Usage examples of "pearl oysters".
Rafts that had once supported thousands upon thousands of pearl oysters in various stages of growth lay washed up on distant beaches or sunk where no eye could see.
His last conscious thought was a mild wonderment that even this landing-boat had a pervading aroma of fish, pearl oysters, goat hides, bilge water, kerosene, and the unwashed humanity that occupied it recently.
Melusine showed him her pearl oysters-all of which obediently yawned open at her command, and contorted their soft inner parts to display their pearls.
It had been a moderately prosperous fishing and corsair port - dates, carobs, pearl oysters, coral - hence the mole and the ruins - until the time of, I think, Mulei Hassan.
We also brought up some holothurias, pearl oysters, and a dozen little turtles, that were reserved for the pantry on board.