| 单词 | portuguese oyster |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPortuguese oyster Portuguese oyster n. a large edible oyster, Crassostrea angulata (now thought to be a variety of the Pacific oyster, C. gigas), which has a thick, white to pale brown shell with an irregular pattern of ridges and grooves, and was introduced to cultivation in Europe via Portugal. 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 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > crassostrea angulata Portuguese oyster1881 Portugal oyster1890 Portugaise1942 1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 707 The reporter..saw shells of a species of oyster in the collections which was referred to as the ‘Portuguese’ oyster, and which he could not distinguish from the shells of O. virginiana. 1928 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas xiv. 301 Of recent years it [sc. the French oyster] has been almost completely ousted in the more southern beds by the Portuguese oyster. 1988 K. Amis Difficulties with Girls i. 7 He had suddenly realised just what must have been wrong with those Portuguese oysters he had eaten for lunch. < as lemmas |
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