Usually means: Edible mollusk, produces pearls, bivalve.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word oyster:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. oyster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oyster: Merriam-Webster
  3. oyster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oyster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. oyster: Collins English Dictionary
  6. oyster: Vocabulary.com
  7. Oyster, oyster: Wordnik
  8. oyster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Oyster: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. oyster: Wiktionary
  11. oyster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. oyster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. oyster: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. Oyster, oyster: Dictionary.com
  15. oyster: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. oyster: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Oyster (album), Oyster (company), Oyster (disambiguation), Oyster (fowl), Oyster (magazine), Oyster, The Oyster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Oyster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. oyster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. oyster: Rhymezone
  21. Oyster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. oyster: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Oyster, Oyster: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. oyster: FreeDictionary.org
  25. oyster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. oyster: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. oyster: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. oyster: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  4. Oyster: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oyster: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. oyster: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Oyster: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  2. oyster: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. oyster: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. oyster: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See oystered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
noun:  The delicate oyster-shaped morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
noun:  A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
noun:  (colloquial, by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.
noun:  (figurative) Something at one's disposal.
noun:  (UK, slang) A shoplifter.
adjective:  Of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
verb:  (intransitive) To fish for oysters.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (UK, slang) Ellipsis of Oyster card. [A contactless smart card, introduced in 2003, used to pay for public transport in the Greater London area.]

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