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Image:Ostrea edulis Marennes p1050140.jpg|thumb|right|250 px|oyster (1)

Etymology
OE. ostre, from L. ostrea; reinforced or superceded in Middle English by Anglo-Norman oistre, OF. oistre, uistre (modern French huître), from L. ostrea, from AGr. polytonic|����εον (related to polytonic|���έον �bone�, polytonic|����ακον �shell�).

Pronunciation
IPA|/��ɪst�/
audio|en-us-oyster.ogg|Audio (US)

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�ɪst�(r)|-�ɪst�(r)

Noun
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1. Any marine bivalve mollusk of the Family Ostreidae, usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
2. A name popularly given to the delicate morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
3. color a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.

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1. slang A person who keeps the secrets trusted to him,

Translations
trans-top|mollusk
Czech: úst�ice f
Danish: østers g|Danish
Finnish: osteri
French: huître f
German: Auster f
Greek: ���είδι n
Hawaiian: kio
Hungarian: osztriga
Indonesian: tiram
Italian: ostrica f
Japanese: �蠣(��, kaki), ��� (������, shinjugai)
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Lithuanian: austr� f
Maori: tio
Norwegian: østers m
Old English: ostre f
Polish: ostryga f
Portuguese: ostra f
Russian: ����и�а (ústritsa) f
Slovene: ostriga f
Spanish: ostra f
Turkish: istiridye
Vietnamese: hàu
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Japanese: �蠣, �� (��, kaki)
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trans-top|person who keeps the secrets
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Adjective
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1. color of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.

Derived terms
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oyster bed
oyster crab
oyster cracker
oyster farm
oyster mushroom
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oyster pink
oyster plant
oyster sauce
oyster shell scale
oyster white
oystercatcher
oysterman
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oysters rockefeller
pearl oyster
prairie oyster
seed oyster
the world is your oyster
vegetable oyster
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Quotations
food
1597-8:The world is one's oyster (originally: "Why, then the world 's mine oyster") � Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor - Act II, Scene II

See also
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astragalus
bluepoint
carpetbag steak
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lungwort
pearl
salsify
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Category:Mollusks
Category:Seafoods

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