oyster bed

oyster bed

noun
a place where oysters breed or are cultivated.

Origin:
1585–95

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oyster bed
 
n
oyster bank, Also called: oyster park a place, esp on the sea bed, where oysters breed and grow naturally or are cultivated for food or pearls

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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