| 单词 | raccoon oyster |
| 释义 | > as lemmasraccoon oyster raccoon oyster n. U.S. (now chiefly historical) the coon or frond oyster, Dendrostrea frons, a small, brown-shelled oyster found off south-eastern North America, especially among mangroves, and often eaten by raccoons. ΘΚΠ 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 > ostrea frons raccoon oyster1834 1834 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. II. 504 Shrimps..have been detained at low water on the banks of racoon oysters, a kind of shell-fish so named under the idea that they are eaten by that quadruped. 1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 219/1 When the mangrove grows on the outer edge of the water-line, and drops its aerial roots,..the spat of the raccoon oyster finds a lodgement. 1987 Times (St. Petersburg, Fla.) (Nexis) 19 Aug. 2 Sweet little ‘racoon’ oysters grew thickly on the roots of the mangrove along many shores. < as lemmas |
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