Oyster, the Glossary
Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.[1]
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- Aphrodisiac foods
- Dishes involving the consumption of live animals
- Mollusc common names
- Ostreida
- Oysters
- Smoked food
- Symbols of Mississippi
Adductor muscles (bivalve)
The adductor muscles are the main muscular system in bivalve mollusks (e.g. in clams, scallops, mussels, oysters, etc.). In many parts of the world, when people eat scallops, the adductor muscles are the only part of the animal which is eaten.
See Oyster and Adductor muscles (bivalve)
Ammonia
Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula.
Ammonoidea
Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea.
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Angels on horseback
Angels on horseback is a hot hors d'œuvre or savoury made of oysters wrapped with bacon.
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Anomiidae
Anomiidae is a family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs related to scallops and oysters, and known as anomiids.
Anomioidea
The Anomioidea are a superfamily of marine bivalve molluscs that include two families, the Anomiidae and the Placunidae, the jingle shells and saddle shells.
Apalachicola, Florida
Apalachicola is a city and the county seat of Franklin County, Florida, United States, on the shore of Apalachicola Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Aphrodisiac
An aphrodisiac is a substance alleged to increase libido, sexual desire, sexual attraction, sexual pleasure, or sexual behavior.
Artificial reef
An artificial reef (AR) is a human-created freshwater or marine benthic structure.
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Ascetosporea
The Ascetosporea are a group of eukaryotes that are parasites of animals, especially marine invertebrates.
Audio frequency
An audio frequency or audible frequency (AF) is a periodic vibration whose frequency is audible to the average human.
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Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
Baking
Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, but can also be done in hot ashes, or on hot stones.
Barnacle
Barnacles are arthropods of the subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea.
Biodiversity
Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.
Biological specificity
Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species.
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BioOne
BioOne is a nonprofit publisher of scientific research.
Bivalvia
Bivalvia, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts.
Black drum
The black drum (Pogonias cromis), also known as the drum or drummer, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers.
Black pepper
Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit (the peppercorn), which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning.
Blood
Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.
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Blood vessel
Blood vessels are the structures of the circulatory system that transport blood throughout the human body.
Blue Point, New York
Blue Point is a hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, United States.
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Boiling
Boiling or ebullition is the rapid phase transition from liquid to gas or vapor; the reverse of boiling is condensation.
Brackish water
Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater.
Bristol, Maine
Bristol, known from 1632 to 1765 as Pemaquid (today a village within the town), is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States.
Brittany
Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.
Brown algae
Brown algae (alga) are a large group of multicellular algae comprising the class Phaeophyceae.
Bugeye
The bugeye is a type of sailboat developed in the Chesapeake Bay for oyster dredging. Oyster and bugeye are oysters.
Butter
Butter is a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of churned cream.
Calcification
Calcification is the accumulation of calcium salts in a body tissue.
Calcium
Calcium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ca and atomic number 20.
Cancale
Cancale (Gallo: Cauncall) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.
Canning
Canning is a method of food preservation in which food is processed and sealed in an airtight container (jars like Mason jars, and steel and tin cans).
Cape May
Cape May consists of a peninsula and barrier island system in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
Cargo ship
A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another.
Cellulitis
Cellulitis is usually a bacterial infection involving the inner layers of the skin.
Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States.
Chesapeake Bay Program
The Chesapeake Bay Program is the regional partnership that directs and conducts the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay in the United States.
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Cilium
The cilium (cilia;; in anatomy, cilium is an eyelash) is a membrane-bound organelle found on most types of eukaryotic cell.
Circadian rhythm
A circadian rhythm, or circadian cycle, is a natural oscillation that repeats roughly every 24 hours.
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Cocktail sauce
Cocktail sauce, also known as seafood sauce, is one of several types of cold or room temperature sauces often served as part of a dish referred to as a seafood cocktail or as a condiment with other seafoods.
Codex Alimentarius
The i is a collection of internationally recognized standards, codes of practice, guidelines, and other recommendations published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations relating to food, food production, food labeling, and food safety.
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Colchester
Colchester is a city in northeastern Essex, England.
Common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.
Crab
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the thorax (brachyura means "short tail" in Greek).
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Crassostrea
Crassostrea is a genus of true oysters (family Ostreidae) containing some of the most important oysters used for food. Oyster and Crassostrea are oysters.
Cultured pearl
Cultured pearls are pearls which are formed within a cultured pearl sac with human intervention in the interior of productive living molluscs in a variety of conditions depending upon the mollusc and the goals.
Deadspin
Deadspin is a sports blog founded by Will Leitch in 2005 and based in Chicago.
Delaware
Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.
Delaware Bay
Delaware Bay is the estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the northeast seaboard of the United States, lying between the states of Delaware and New Jersey.
Delicacy
A delicacy is a rare food item that is considered highly desirable, sophisticated, or peculiarly distinctive within a given culture or region.
Depuration
Depuration of seafood is the process by which marine or freshwater animals are placed into a clean water environment for a period of time to allow purging of biological contaminants (such as Escherichia coli) and physical impurities (such as sand and silt).
Dimyidae
Dimyidae is a family of extremely flattened, small (C. M. YONGE. ON THE DIMYIDAE (MOLLUSCA:BIVALVIA) WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DIMYA CORRUGATA HEDLEY AND BASILIOMYA GOREAUI BAYER J. Mollus. Stud. (1978) 44 (3): 357-375 They are related to the scallops and other oysters.
Dredge oyster
The dredge oyster, Bluff oyster or Chilean oyster (Ostrea chilensis), is also known in Chile as ostra verde, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Ostreidae.
Duxbury, Massachusetts
Duxbury (alternative older spelling: "Duxborough") is a historic seaside town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Early Triassic
The Early Triassic is the first of three epochs of the Triassic Period of the geologic timescale.
Eastern oyster
The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica)—also called the Atlantic oyster, American oyster, or East Coast oyster—is a species of true oyster native to eastern North and South America.
Ecosystem engineer
An ecosystem engineer is any species that creates, significantly modifies, maintains or destroys a habitat.
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Ecosystem service
Ecosystem services are the various benefits that humans derive from healthy ecosystems.
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Egg
An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.
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Escherichia coli
Escherichia coliWells, J. C. (2000) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.
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Experiment
An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.
Feces
Feces (or faeces;: faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.
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Filter feeder
Filter feeders are aquatic animals that acquire nutrients by feeding on organic matters, food particles or smaller organisms (bacteria, microalgae and zooplanktons) suspended in water, typically by having the water pass over or through a specialized filtering organ.
Fishery
Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life or, more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place (a.k.a., fishing grounds).
Fishing dredge
A fishing dredge, also known as a scallop dredge or oyster dredge, is a kind of dredge which is towed along the bottom of the sea by a fishing boat in order to collect a targeted edible bottom-dwelling species.
Flour
Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds.
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Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsOrganisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'alimentazione e l'agricoltura.
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Food energy
Food energy is chemical energy that animals (including humans) derive from their food to sustain their metabolism, including their muscular activity.
Food web
A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Frying
Frying is the cooking of food in oil or another fat.
Fungus
A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
Galveston, Texas
Galveston is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.
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Galway
Galway (Gaillimh) is a city in (and the county town of) County Galway.
Galway International Oyster Festival
The Galway International Oyster Festival is a food festival held annually in Galway on the west coast of Ireland on the last weekend of September, the first month of the oyster season.
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Ganglion
A ganglion (ganglia) is a group of neuron cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system.
Gastroenteritis
Gastroenteritis, also known as infectious diarrhea, is an inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract including the stomach and intestine.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
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Geologic time scale
The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.
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Gill
A gill is a respiratory organ that many aquatic organisms use to extract dissolved oxygen from water and to excrete carbon dioxide.
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Global change
Global change in broad sense refers to planetary-scale changes in the Earth system.
Gonad
A gonad, sex gland, or reproductive gland is a mixed gland that produces the gametes and sex hormones of an organism.
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Great Wicomico River
The Great Wicomico River is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Green infrastructure
Green infrastructure or blue-green infrastructure refers to a network that provides the “ingredients” for solving urban and climatic challenges by building with nature.
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Grilling
Grilling is a form of cooking that involves heat applied to the surface of food, commonly from above, below or from the side.
Gulf Coast of the United States
The Gulf Coast of the United States, also known as the Gulf South or the South Coast, is the coastline along the Southern United States where they meet the Gulf of Mexico.
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Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.
Habitat
In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species.
Hanafi school
The Hanafi school or Hanafism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.
Haplosporidium nelsoni
Haplosporidium nelsoni is a pathogen of oysters that originally caused oyster populations to experience high mortality rates in the 1950s, and still is quite prevalent today.
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Harmful algal bloom
A harmful algal bloom (HAB), or excessive algae growth, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced toxins, mechanical damage to other organisms, or by other means.
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Heart
The heart is a muscular organ found in most animals.
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Hope (sloop)
Hope is an oyster sloop that was completed in 1948.
Human
Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.
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Hydraulics
Hydraulics is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids.
Immunodeficiency
Immunodeficiency, also known as immunocompromisation, is a state in which the immune system's ability to fight infectious diseases and cancer is compromised or entirely absent.
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Intertidal zone
The intertidal zone or foreshore is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide; in other words, it is the part of the littoral zone within the tidal range.
See Oyster and Intertidal zone
Introduced species
An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.
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Irish Independent
The Irish Independent is an Irish daily newspaper and online publication which is owned by Independent News & Media (INM), a subsidiary of Mediahuis.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
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Ischadium
Ischadium is a monotypic genus of mussels in the family Mytilidae.
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
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Islamic dietary laws
Islamic dietary laws are laws that Muslims follow in their diet.
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Ja'fari school
The Jaʿfarī school, also known as the Jafarite school, Jaʿfarī fiqh (الفقه الجعفري) or Ja'fari jurisprudence, is a prominent school of jurisprudence (fiqh) within Twelver and Ismaili (including Nizari) Shia Islam, named after the sixth Imam, Ja'far al-Sadiq.
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
Kaki furai
Kaki furai or kaki fry (translit) is a Japanese dish consisting of panko-breaded deep-fried oysters.
Kashrut
(also or, כַּשְׁרוּת) is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jewish people are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish law.
Keystone species
A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its natural environment relative to its abundance.
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Kidney
In humans, the kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped blood-filtering organs that are a multilobar, multipapillary form of mammalian kidneys, usually without signs of external lobulation.
Kitchen knife
A kitchen knife is any knife that is intended to be used in food preparation.
Kumamoto
is the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan.
Larva
A larva (larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Latinisation of names
Latinisation (or Latinization) of names, also known as onomastic Latinisation, is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a modern Latin style.
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Lemon
The lemon (Citrus × limon) is a species of small evergreen tree in the flowering plant family Rutaceae, native to Asia, primarily Northeast India (Assam), Northern Myanmar, and China.
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Liostrea
Liostrea is a genus of extinct oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Gryphaeidae.
List of smoked foods
This is a list of smoked foods. Oyster and list of smoked foods are smoked food.
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Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is an American public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Madrid
Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.
Magallana
Magallana is a genus of true oysters (family Ostreidae) containing some of the most important oysters used for food.
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.
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Makruh
In Islamic terminology, something which is makruh or makrooh (مكروه, transliterated: makrooh or makrūh) is "disliked", literally "detestable" or "abominable".
Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
Malpeque Bay, Prince Edward Island
The Municipality of Malpeque Bay is a municipality that holds community status in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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Mangrove
A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.
Mangrove oyster
Mangrove oyster is a common name for several oysters that live on mangrove roots and may refer to. Oyster and mangrove oyster are mollusc common names.
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Mantle (mollusc)
The mantle (also known by the Latin word pallium meaning mantle, robe or cloak, adjective pallial) is a significant part of the anatomy of molluscs: it is the dorsal body wall which covers the visceral mass and usually protrudes in the form of flaps well beyond the visceral mass itself.
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Marennes, Charente-Maritime
Marennes is a former commune in the Charente-Maritime department, southwestern France.
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Mariculture
Mariculture, sometimes called marine farming or marine aquaculture, is a branch of aquaculture involving the cultivation of marine organisms for food and other animal products, in seawater.
Marine Ecology Progress Series
The Marine Ecology Progress Series is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers all aspects of marine ecology.
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Market of San Miguel
The Market of San Miguel (Spanish: Mercado de San Miguel) is a covered market located in Madrid, Spain.
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Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
Midden
A midden is an old dump for domestic waste.
Mignonette sauce
Mignonette sauce is a condiment made with minced shallots, cracked pepper, and vinegar traditionally served with raw oysters.
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Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.
Mucus
Mucus is a slippery aqueous secretion produced by, and covering, mucous membranes.
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Mussel
Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and freshwater habitats. Oyster and Mussel are mollusc common names.
Nacre
Nacre, also known as mother of pearl, is an organicinorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer.
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Neritic zone
The neritic zone (or sublittoral zone) is the relatively shallow part of the ocean above the drop-off of the continental shelf, approximately in depth.
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
New York Harbor
New York Harbor is a bay that covers all of the Upper Bay and an extremely small portion of the Lower Bay.
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NHK
, also known by its romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster.
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Nitrate
Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the chemical formula.
Nutrient cycle
A nutrient cycle (or ecological recycling) is the movement and exchange of inorganic and organic matter back into the production of matter.
Nutrient pollution
Nutrient pollution, a form of water pollution, refers to contamination by excessive inputs of nutrients.
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Ocean
The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.
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Oléron
The Isle of Oléron or Oléron Island (île d'Oléron,; Saintongese: ilâte d'Olerun; Uliaros insula) is an island off the Atlantic coast of France (due west of Rochefort), on the southern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait.
Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
Ostrea
Ostrea is a genus of edible oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Ostreidae, the oysters. Oyster and Ostrea are oysters.
Ostrea angasi
The southern mud oyster, Australian flat oyster, native flat oyster, native mud oyster, or angasi oyster (Ostrea angasi), is endemic to southern Australia, ranging from Western Australia to southeast New South Wales and around Tasmania.
Ostrea edulis
Ostrea edulis, commonly known as the European flat oyster, is a species of oyster native to Europe.
Ostrea lurida
Ostrea lurida, common name the Olympia oyster, after Olympia, Washington in the Puget Sound area, is a species of small, edible oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Ostreidae.
Ostreida
The order Ostreida includes the true oysters.
Ostreidae
The Ostreidae, the true oysters, include most species of molluscs commonly consumed as oysters. Oyster and Ostreidae are Ostreida and oysters.
Ostreoidea
Ostreoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of bivalve marine mollusc, sometimes simply identified as oysters, containing two families. Oyster and Ostreoidea are Ostreida.
Oyster crab
The oyster crab (Zaops ostreus) is a small, whitish or translucent crab in the family Pinnotheridae.
Oyster farming
Oyster farming is an aquaculture (or mariculture) practice in which oysters are bred and raised mainly for their pearls, shells and inner organ tissue, which is eaten. Oyster and oyster farming are oysters.
Oyster Feast
The Oyster Feast is the centrepiece of the annual civic calendar in the ancient borough of Colchester located in Essex in the East of England.
Oyster festival
An oyster festival is a food festival centered on the oyster.
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Oyster glove
An oyster glove is a special glove worn to protect the hand holding an oyster when opening it with an oyster knife.
Oyster omelette
Taiwanese style Oyster omeletteThe oyster omelette, also known as o-a-tsian, o-chien or orh luak (Peng'im: o5 luah4), is a dish of Min Nan (Hokkien and Teochew) origin that is renowned for its savory flavor in its native Minnan region and Chaoshan, along with Taiwan and many parts of Southeast Asia, such as Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia or Singapore, due to the influence of the Hokkien and Teochew diaspora.
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Oyster pirate
Oyster pirates on the Chesapeake Bay in 1884 An oyster pirate is a person who poaches oysters. Oyster and oyster pirate are oysters.
Oyster reef
The term oyster reef refers to dense aggregations of oysters that form large colonial communities. Oyster and oyster reef are oysters.
Oyster reef restoration
Oyster reef restoration refers to the reparation and reconstruction of degraded oyster reefs.
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Oyster sauce
Oyster sauce describes a number of sauces made by cooking oysters.
Oysters in New York City
Oysters in New York City have a long history as part of both the environmental and cultural environment. Oyster and Oysters in New York City are oysters.
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Oysters Kirkpatrick
Oysters Kirkpatrick, also called Oysters Kilpatrick, or Kirkpatrick and oysters, or Oysters Philpatrick, are a dish of oysters topped with cooked bacon, seasoned with Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, or other flavorings, then broiled.
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Oysters Rockefeller
Oysters Rockefeller consists of oysters on the half-shell that have been topped with a rich sauce of butter, parsley and other green herbs, and bread crumbs, then baked or broiled.
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Pacific oyster
The Pacific oyster, Japanese oyster, or Miyagi oyster (Magallana gigas) is an oyster native to the Pacific coast of Asia.
Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
Pathogen
In biology, a pathogen (πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and -γενής, "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease.
Pearl
A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids.
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Pectinoidea
The Pectinoidea are a superfamily of marine bivalve molluscs, including the scallops and spiny oysters.
Pendrell Sound
Pendrell Sound is a sound located in the Discovery Islands in British Columbia, Canada.
Perkinsus marinus
Perkinsus marinus is a species of alveolate belonging to the phylum Perkinsozoa.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Phosphate
In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid.
Pickling
Pickling is the process of preserving or extending the shelf life of food by either anaerobic fermentation in brine or immersion in vinegar.
Pigment
A pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance.
Pile driver
A pile driver is a heavy-duty tool used to drive piles into soil to build piers, bridges, cofferdams, and other "pole" supported structures, and patterns of pilings as part of permanent deep foundations for buildings or other structures.
Pinctada
Pinctada is a genus of saltwater oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pteriidae.
Placunidae
Placunidae, also known as windowpane oysters, windowpane shells, and Capiz shells, are a taxonomic family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks which are related to oysters and scallops.
Plankton
Plankton are the diverse collection of organisms that drift in water (or air) but are unable to actively propel themselves against currents (or wind).
Plasmodium
Plasmodium is a genus of unicellular eukaryotes that are obligate parasites of vertebrates and insects.
Ploidy
Ploidy is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes.
Poaching
Poaching is the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.
Polyploidy
Polyploidy is a condition in which the cells of an organism have more than one pair of (homologous) chromosomes.
Prawn
Prawn is a common name for small aquatic crustaceans with an exoskeleton and ten legs (members of the order of decapods), some of which are edible.
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Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI;;; colloquially known as the Island) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
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Protozoa
Protozoa (protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a polyphyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic debris.
Pseudofeces
Pseudofeces or pseudofaeces are a specialized method of expulsion that filter-feeding bivalve mollusks (and filter-feeding gastropod mollusks) use in order to get rid of suspended particles such as particles of grit which cannot be used as food, and which have been rejected by the animal.
Pteriidae
Pteriidae, also called the feather oysters, is a family of medium-sized to large saltwater oysters.
Pterioidea
Pterioidea is a superfamily of epifaunal marine bivalves mostly inhabiting continental shelf regions of tropical and subtropical oceans.
Rain
Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.
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A rake (Old English raca, cognate with Dutch hark, German Rechen, from the root meaning "to scrape together", "heap up") is a broom for outside use; a horticultural implement consisting of a toothed bar fixed transversely to a handle, or tines fixed to a handle, and used to collect leaves, hay, grass, etc., and in gardening, for loosening the soil, light weeding and levelling, removing dead grass from lawns, and generally for purposes performed in agriculture by the harrow.
Rappahannock River
The Rappahannock River is a river in eastern Virginia, in the United States, approximately in length.
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Reference Daily Intake
In the U.S. and Canada, the Reference Daily Intake (RDI) is used in nutrition labeling on food and dietary supplement products to indicate the daily intake level of a nutrient that is considered to be sufficient to meet the requirements of 97–98% of healthy individuals in every demographic in the United States.
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Roasting
Roasting is a cooking method that uses dry heat where hot air covers the food, cooking it evenly on all sides with temperatures of at least from an open flame, oven, or other heat source.
Rock oyster
Rock oysters are true oysters of the genus Saccostrea, belonging to the subfamily Saccostreinae of the family Ostreidae.
Rolled oyster
Rolled oyster is a baseball-sized seafood dish that is found only in and around Louisville, Kentucky.
Roman Britain
Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Roman Republic
The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.
Roux
Roux is a mixture of flour and fat cooked together and used to thicken sauces.
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Saccostrea glomerata
Saccostrea glomerata is an oyster species belonging to the family Ostreidae.
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Sailboat
A sailboat or sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails and is smaller than a sailing ship.
Salt
In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).
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San Leandro Oyster Beds
The San Leandro Oyster Beds in San Leandro, California, were the origin of the oyster industry in the U.S. state of California.
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Scallop
Scallop is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops. Oyster and scallop are mollusc common names.
Sciaenidae
Sciaenidae is a family of ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Acanthuriformes.
Sea anemone
Sea anemones are a group of predatory marine invertebrates constituting the order Actiniaria.
Seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.
Seawater
Seawater, or sea water, is water from a sea or ocean.
Selenium
Selenium is a chemical element; it has the symbol Se and atomic number 34.
Sepsis
Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening condition that arises when the body's response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs.
Sequential hermaphroditism
Sequential hermaphroditism (called dichogamy in botany) is one of the two types of hermaphroditism, the other type being simultaneous hermaphroditism.
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Sergius Orata
Gaius Sergius Orata (fl. c. 95 BC) was an Ancient Roman who was a successful merchant, inventor and hydraulic engineer.
Sex hormone
Sex hormones, also known as sex steroids, gonadocorticoids and gonadal steroids, are steroid hormones that interact with vertebrate steroid hormone receptors.
Shallot
The shallot is a cultivar group of the onion.
Sherry vinegar
Sherry vinegar (vinagre de Jerez) is a gourmet wine vinegar made from sherry.
Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
Skipjack (boat)
The skipjack is a traditional fishing boat used on the Chesapeake Bay for oyster dredging. Oyster and skipjack (boat) are oysters.
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Smoking (cooking)
Smoking is the process of flavoring, browning, cooking, or preserving food by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood.
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Sperm
Sperm (sperm or sperms) is the male reproductive cell, or gamete, in anisogamous forms of sexual reproduction (forms in which there is a larger, female reproductive cell and a smaller, male one).
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Spondylus
Spondylus is a genus of bivalve molluscs, the only genus in the family Spondylidae.
Starfish
Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.
Steaming
Steaming is a method of cooking using steam.
Stew
A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy.
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Stout
Stout is a type of dark beer, that is generally warm fermented, such as dry stout, oatmeal stout, milk stout and imperial stout.
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Striped bass
The striped bass (Morone saxatilis), also called the Atlantic striped bass, striper, linesider, rock, or rockfish, is an anadromous perciform fish of the family Moronidae found primarily along the Atlantic coast of North America.
Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
Tabby concrete
Tabby is a type of concrete made by burning oyster shells to create lime, then mixing it with water, sand, ash and broken oyster shells.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.
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Tikod amo
Tikod amo is the Kamayo language name for an edible oyster species, a species of marine bivalve mollusk that is found in the coastal waters of Lianga Bay in Barobo Surigao del Sur in the Philippines. Oyster and Tikod amo are oysters.
Tomales Bay
Tomales Bay is a long, narrow inlet of the Pacific Ocean in Marin County in northern California in the United States.
Tongs
Tongs are a type of tool used to grip and lift objects instead of holding them directly with hands.
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Underwater diving
Underwater diving, as a human activity, is the practice of descending below the water's surface to interact with the environment.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States.
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Veliger
A veliger is the planktonic larva of many kinds of sea snails and freshwater snails, as well as most bivalve molluscs (clams) and tusk shells.
Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Vibrio parahaemolyticus (V. parahaemolyticus) is a curved, rod-shaped, Gram-negative bacterial species found in the sea and in estuaries which, when ingested, may cause gastrointestinal illness in humans.
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Vibrio vulnificus
Vibrio vulnificus is a species of Gram-negative, motile, curved rod-shaped (vibrio), pathogenic bacteria of the genus Vibrio.
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Vinegar
Vinegar is an aqueous solution of acetic acid and trace compounds that may include flavorings.
Vitamin A
Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin, hence an essential nutrient.
Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12, also known as cobalamin, is a water-soluble vitamin involved in metabolism.
Water filter
A water filter removes impurities by lowering contamination of water using a fine physical barrier, a chemical process, or a biological process.
Water pollution
Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, with a negative impact on their uses.
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Waterman (occupation)
A waterman is a river worker who transfers passengers across and along city centre rivers and estuaries in the United Kingdom and its colonies.
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Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Wellfleet is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, and is located halfway between the "tip" and "elbow" of Cape Cod.
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White wine
White wine is a wine that is fermented without skin contact.
Whitstable
Whitstable is a town in the Canterbury district, on the north coast of Kent adjoining the convergence of the Swale Estuary and the Greater Thames Estuary in southeastern England, north of Canterbury and west of Herne Bay.
Willapa Bay
Willapa Bay is a bay located on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington state in the United States.
Windowpane oyster
The windowpane oyster (Placuna placenta) is a bivalve marine mollusk in the family of Placunidae. Oyster and windowpane oyster are oysters.
See Oyster and Windowpane oyster
Working class
The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.
Yaquina Bay
Yaquina Bay is a coastal estuarine community found in Newport, Oregon.
Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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See also
Aphrodisiac foods
- Cardamom
- Celery
- Chocolate
- Fig
- Korean bug
- Oxynopterus mucronatus
- Oyster
- Pomegranate
- Soup Number Five
- Vuelvealavida
Dishes involving the consumption of live animals
- Casu martzu
- Drunken shrimp
- Eating live animals
- Eating live seafood
- Goldfish swallowing
- Ikizukuri
- Odori ebi
- Odorigui
- Oyster
- San-nakji
- Yin Yang fish
Mollusc common names
- Abalone
- Clam
- Conch
- Cone snail
- Cowrie
- Dodman
- Ecphora
- Fan mussel
- Freshwater snail
- Gaudy cantharus
- Jackknife clam
- Land snail
- Limpet
- Mangrove oyster
- Mussel
- Oyster
- Pearly mussel
- Polynesian tree snail
- Pāua
- Ramshorn snail
- Razor clam
- Scallop
- Sea slug
- Sea snail
- Slug
- Snail
- Squid
- Sunset shell
- Tree snail
- Turrid
- Whelk
Ostreida
- Daonella
- Gryphaeidae
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
- Ostreoidea
- Oyster
- Oysters
- Pectinidae
- Vulsella (bivalve)
- Vulsellidae
Oysters
- Achill oysters
- Billion Oyster Project
- Bugeye
- Consider the Oyster
- Crassostrea
- Drakes Bay Oyster Company
- Edward Dando
- Gillardeau oysters
- J. C. Lore Oyster House
- Joël Dupuch
- Ostrea
- Ostreidae
- Oyster
- Oyster Wars
- Oyster buy-boat
- Oyster farming
- Oyster farming on Georges River
- Oyster pail
- Oyster pirate
- Oyster reef
- Oyster schooner
- Oyster schooners
- Oystering machinery
- Oysters in New York City
- Pacific Northwest oyster industry
- Rudolph Oyster House
- Saccostrea
- Sharpie (boat)
- Skipjack (boat)
- The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
- The Walrus and the Carpenter
- Thomas Downing (restaurateur)
- Tikod amo
- Tomales Bay Oyster Company
- Wharton v. Wise
- William B. Reed (politician)
- Windowpane oyster
Smoked food
- Alinazik kebab
- Baingan bharta
- Chipotle
- Grodziskie
- Jallab
- Lapsang souchong
- Liquid smoke
- List of smoked foods
- Mattha
- Oyster
- Paprika
- Punjabi cuisine
- Smoked beer
- Smoked cheeses
- Smoked egg
- Smoked fish
- Smoked meat
- Smoked plum
- Smoked salt
- Smoked scallop
- Suanmeitang
Symbols of Mississippi
- American alligator
- Basilosaurus
- Bottlenose dolphin
- Coat of arms of Mississippi
- Common bottlenose dolphin
- Flag of Mississippi
- Go, Mississippi
- In God We Trust
- Largemouth bass
- List of Mississippi state symbols
- Magnolia
- Magnolia grandiflora
- Micropterus
- Mockingbird
- Natchez silt loam
- Northern mockingbird
- Oyster
- Papilio troilus
- Petrified wood
- Red fox
- Seal of Mississippi
- USS Mississippi (BB-41)
- Western honey bee
- White-tailed deer
- Zygorhiza
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster
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