Crassostrea

noun

Virginia oysters

• Syn: ↑genus Crassostrea

• Hypernyms: ↑mollusk genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Ostreidae, ↑family Ostreidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑Virginia oyster

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\\krəˈsästrēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin crassus thick, fat + ostrea oyster — more at oyster

: a genus of bivalve mollusks comprising those oysters that discharge their reproductive products directly into the water and have no larval development in the gills of the parent, and now usually including the Virginia oyster — compare gryphaea 1, ostrea