oysteragen.
/ˈɔɪst(ə)rɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈɔɪstərɪdʒ/ An oyster bed. Also: a company concerned with the production and sale of oysters.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > member of (oyster) > oyster bed
scalp?15..
oyster bed1591
oyster bank1612
layer1667
oyster-lay1703
oyster-laying1761
oyster bar1823
laying1837
oyster park1862
oysterage1866
oyster field1868
lay1902
1866 Morning Star 4 Jan. 6/1 The Saltash oysterage will..be found a valuable acquisition by the company.
1955 Times 31 Aug. 5/1 There is a confident feeling at this oysterage that its harvest and its trade are regaining the plenteousness and vigour of the years before the war.
1956 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 25 144 If the oyster is susceptible to heavy infection this could easily occur, as the mussels in the region of all the major oysterages are already heavily infected with Mytilicola.
2002 Times (Nexis) 5 Jan. Le carrelet, a form of net hut on piloti,..and the kindred cabane tchanquee, whose precursors were situated on the oysterages round the bassin d'Arcachon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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