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• n  marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters
• n  edible body of any of numerous oysters
• n  a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl
• v  gather oysters, dig oysters

• Oyster Bar Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY 10017; 212-490-6650 40.
• It would take a hen, however earnest and diligent, 240,000 years to lay as many eggs as a female oyster will toss into the water on a single midsummer day.
• In the best of all possible worlds, an oyster might live 15 years, but only one in 10,000 makes it to maturity.

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News & Articles

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• Oyster reef volunteers sought
  The N.C. Coastal Federation and Hammocks Beach State Park are looking for volunteers to help create oyster reefs at Jones Island in the White Oak River.
  June 11, 2013 - The Jacksonville Daily News
• Oyster gardening project produces 'special' results
  Dunloggin Middle School students found last year's trip to the Chesapeake Bay disappointing. There were only a couple live oysters in the piles of cracked, dead ones brought up by a trawl.        
  June 10, 2013 - Baltimore Sun
• Oyster gardening project at Dunloggin Middle produces 'special' results
  Dunloggin Middle School students found last year's trip to the Chesapeake Bay disappointing. There were only a couple live oysters in the piles of cracked, dead ones brought up by a trawl.        
  June 10, 2013 - Baltimore Sun

Quotes

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• John Howard in Forbes
  Emotionally I don't like it any more than you or your listeners,Howard said. "We can't have it both ways. We can't expect the world to be Australia's oyster yet resent it when foreigners buy into Australian assets."
• Dianne Feinstein in Los Angeles Times
  The 10-year extension of the Drakes Bay Oyster Company's lease will preserve 30 jobs at the last remaining oyster farm cannery on the West Coast while making sure that the ecology of the estuary is protected,Feinstein said in a written...
• Lisa Snowdon in Independent
  Lisa Snowdon, the presenter of the show, said: "This girl just blossomed before my eyes. She's always been one of the most interesting girls - she's very special looking and all her pictures are fierce. The fashion world is her oyster."