Definitions for oyster

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oyster oys·ter

Spelling: [oi-ster]

IPA: /ˈɔɪ stər/

Oyster is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in oyster (eorsty).

Definitions for oyster

noun

1. any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
2. the oyster-shaped bit of dark meat in the front hollow of the side bone of a fowl.
3. Slang. a closemouthed or uncommunicative person, especially one who keeps secrets well.
4. something from which a person may extract or derive advantage:
5. oyster white.

verb (used without object)

1. to dredge for or otherwise take oysters.

Origin of oyster

1325-75; Middle English oistre Middle French Latin ostrea Greek óstreon; see ostracize

Examples for oyster

One morning Gervaise surprised her emptying a basket of oyster shells there.

Other, greener options, like wetland restoration or oyster reefs, could also help slow waves before they reach the city.

A television series, Mama, was broadcast from a studio above The oyster Bar beginning in 1949.

Strain in the milk, add the oyster liquor, stir, and cook well.

Otherwise they were canned as the Tricholoma and oyster mushroom.

What a sauce that is,” he enthused, “which dresses an oyster I suck from the mouth of the woman I love!

He has the constitution of a rhinoceros, the digestion of an ostrich, and the concentration of an oyster.

I added a few impossible positions, just to have a little fun, like the Swan Flying over the oyster Shell.

Strain in the milk and oyster liquor, and stir and cook well.

If you want to be a human being, and a popular human being, then you have to stop being an oyster and come out of your shell.