| 单词 | pacific oyster |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPacific oyster Pacific oyster n. a large oyster with a deeply fluted shell, Crassostrea gigas, native to north-eastern Asia and now found widely elsewhere, chiefly as a cultivated species of tropical and temperate estuarine waters. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > oyster oystereOE Colchesterc1625 green oyster1667 mangrove oyster1683 pandore1701 Milton1749 sickle-oyster1758 bluepoint1789 native1815 powldoody1819 Red Bank oyster1830 raccoon oyster1834 sauce oyster1851 Portuguese oyster1881 relay1889 Portugal oyster1890 Malpeque1901 Marennes1905 Belon1908 Olympia oyster1908 Pacific oyster1912 Whitstable1940 Portugaise1942 Olympia1961 1912 Amer. Naturalist 46 36 The most interesting feature in connection with the Pacific oyster of Canada is its divergence in some respects from the mode of breeding of our Atlantic species. 1950 H. M. Corning New Washington: Guide to Evergreen State (ed. 3) 559 The meandering shore lines of Willapa Bay, home of the Pacific Oyster industry, a region of quiet lagoons and great oyster flats. 1995 Independent on Sunday 26 Nov. (Review Suppl.) 77/3 Oyster farmers established new beds using the disease-resistant rock or Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas), which has frillier shell, less substantial, rather fatty flesh and a non-unpleasant metallic flavour. < as lemmas |
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