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HUITRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Edible body of any of numerous oysters
Synonyms:
huitre; oyster
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("huitre" is a kind of...):
shellfish (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "huitre"):
oysters Rockefeller (oysters spread with butter and spinach and seasonings and baked on the half shell)
blue point; bluepoint (oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw)
Holonyms ("huitre" is a part of...):
oyster (marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters)
