osteri — meaning in English

English meaning

• oyster noun A soft-bodied shellfish that lives inside a hard, rough shell, often eaten raw and sometimes producing pearls.
• shellfish noun An aquatic animal with a shell, such as a crab, mussel, or oyster, especially one eaten as food.

Senses

osteri is used for these senses in English:

• oyster A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
• oyster (colloquial, by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.
• shellfish A culinary and nutritional term for several groups of non-piscine, non-tetrapod, aquatic animals that are used as a food source. The term often exclusively refers to edible aquatic crustaceans, bivalve mollusks and cephalopod mollusks; but sometimes echinoderms may be included as well.

oyster — full definition

1. noun A soft-bodied shellfish that lives inside a hard, rough shell, often eaten raw and sometimes producing pearls.
2. adj A pale beige colour with hints of grey or pink, resembling the inside of an oyster shell.
3. verb To gather or fish for oysters.

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