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单词 bluepoint
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bluepointn.1

Brit. /ˈbluːpɔɪnt/, U.S. /ˈbluˌpɔɪnt/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Blue Point.
Etymology: < the name of Blue Point, a hamlet on the south shore of Long Island, New York.
Chiefly U.S.
Originally: an Atlantic oyster, Crassostrea virginica, obtained from a bed off Blue Point (in early use chiefly attributive). In later use: an Atlantic oyster obtained from various locations on the Atlantic coast of the United States, or from cultivation elsewhere.
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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 > member of (oyster)
oystereOE
oysterfish1611
sentry fish1664
sickle-oyster1758
lion's claw1759
bluepoint1789
ostracean1839
1789 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. (1869) XI. 24 Judge Hobart..treated us with Blue Point oysters from the shell.
1832 J. F. Watson Hist. Tales N.Y. 165 He remembered well when abundance of the largest ‘Blue-Point’ oysters could be bought.
1868 G. Rose Great Country 25 [Oysters] are called by many names; ‘saddle rocks’, ‘blue points’, and ‘Shrewsburys’, being the most popular.
1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xx. 343 He got along fine with the olives and celery and the bluepoints.
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 578/1 The large American Blue Points (now cultivated in the British Isles)..are bought for cooking.
2006 Time Out N.Y. 28 Sept. 34/2 Plan to consume raw and fried bluepoints, oyster stew..and pints of stout.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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