oyster

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɔɪ.stə/    美 /ˈɔɪ.stɚ/|/ˈɔɪ.st͡ʃɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
    — Piſt. Why then the world's mine Oyſter, which I, with ſword will open.
  2. The delicate oyster-shaped 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.
    — Cut remaining skin on back. Remove the oyster (choice dark meat in spoon-shaped bone on back) with the leg.
  3. A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
  4. A person who keeps secrets. colloquial
    — Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
  5. Something at one's disposal. figuratively
    — He asked a major Chicago retailer with a large store in the heart of the city about the socioeconomic character of his customers. The man replied proudly that the entire range of economic classes was his oyster.
  6. A shoplifter. UK,slang
  7. Ellipsis of Oyster card. UK,abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,slang
动词 v.
  1. To fish for oysters. intransitive
    — Most Fishneck watermen oystered in winter, using the same small skiffs from which they potted crabs in summer. Sometimes two men oystered from the same boat or took along a son or younger brother to cull oysters (separate those of legal size from undersized ones and shell).
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.

词形变化

oysters plural erster alternative oister alternative,obsolete oystre alternative,obsolete more oyster comparative most oyster superlative erster alternative oister alternative,obsolete oystre alternative,obsolete oysters present,singular,third-person oystering participle,present oystered participle,past oystered past erster alternative oister alternative,obsolete oystre alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
American oyster Atlantic oyster Belon oyster black-bordered oyster black-lip pearl oyster bluff oyster box oyster bunch oyster Ceylon pearl oyster Chilean oyster Chincoteague oyster cockscomb oyster Colchester native oyster common European oyster coon oyster corn oyster dredge oyster eastern oyster edible oyster European flat oyster feather oyster fresh-water oyster Glasgow oyster gold-lip oyster green oyster hammer oyster Hong Kong oyster hooded oyster Japanese oyster mangrove oyster Miyagi oyster mountain oyster mud oyster Murrumbidgee oyster Olympia oyster oyster ball oysterbank oyster bar Oyster Bay oyster bed oyster blade oyster blade steak oysterboat oyster borer oyster cake Oyster card oystercatcher oyster cellar Oyster Cove oyster crab oyster cracker oyster drill oysterer oyster farm oysterfish oyster fruit oyster grass oysterhood oyster house oysterish oyster knife oyster leech oysterless oysterlike oysterling oysterman oystermania oyster mushroom oyster mussel oyster nut oyster omelette oysterous oyster parlor oyster pink oyster piracy oyster pirate oyster plant oyster Rockefeller oyster saloon oyster sauce oystershell oystershell bark louse oystershell scale oyster shooter oyster-shucking knife oysters Kilpatrick oysters Rockefeller oyster-tecture oyster toadfish oyster tree oyster white oyster wife oysterwoman oysterwood oystery Pacific oyster pearl oyster pilgrim oyster Portuguese oyster prairie oyster racoon oyster rock oyster Rocky Mountain oyster saddle oyster scalloped oyster seed oyster Spanish oyster spiny oyster Sydney rock oyster the world is one's oyster the world is someone's oyster thorny oyster tree oyster true oyster vegetable oyster Viennese oyster Virginia oyster Wellfleet oyster windowpane oyster woods oyster
相关词
ostraceous ostreiculture ostreophage ostreophagous ostriferous

词源

词源 1
From Middle English oystre, from Old English ostre, reinforced or superseded by Anglo-Norman oistre, which is from Old French oistre, uistre (compare modern French huître); both lines (Old English and Old French) from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon). Doublet of ostro (“a purple dye”).
词源 2
From Middle English oystre, from Old English ostre, reinforced or superseded by Anglo-Norman oistre, which is from Old French oistre, uistre (compare modern French huître); both lines (Old English and Old French) from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon). Doublet of ostro (“a purple dye”).
词源 3
From Middle English oystre, from Old English ostre, reinforced or superseded by Anglo-Norman oistre, which is from Old French oistre, uistre (compare modern French huître); both lines (Old English and Old French) from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon). Doublet of ostro (“a purple dye”).
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