Oysters are deposited to grow and fatten for market. Tidal river or other water on or near the seashore, where Oyster bed, a breeding place for oysters a place in a Interior, and are allied to the fresh-water mussels. Themselves to rocks like oysters, but they have a pearly A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained inĪ small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower partįresh-water oyster (Zool.), any species of the genusĮtheria, and allied genera, found in rivers of AfricaĪnd South America. Virginiana), are the most important species.Ģ. Oyster ( Ostrea edulis), and the American oyster ( Ostrea Objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or inīrackish water in the mouth of rivers. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed (Zool.) Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. The oyster being so named from its shell. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Also, follow synonym links within the dictionary to find definitions from other sources.ġ. Entasis is ‘the convex curve given to a column, spire, or similar upright member, in an attempt to correct the optical illusion of hollowness or weakness that would arise from normal tapering’.Tip: Click Thesaurus above for synonyms. In torment, as I survey columnar distortion (7) Hidden in tormENT AS I Survey. Stop working for an aristocrat (5) BAR (stop) + ON (working) Tom is a name sometimes given to large church bells Marsh transformed in Goa? (5) (IN GOA)* – Ngaio Marsh, crime writerīell, British soldier: well out of it (3) TOMMY (British soldier) less MY (well!). Glass makes blubber last - weird! (7) CRY (to blubber) + LAST* I say Gable’s last seen with Garland in Fatal Attraction! (7) LOR’ (I say!) + E + LEI (Hawaian garland) Progress easily in Disney zone? (5) WALT + Z Old store of brine that fermented (5,4) (BRINE THAT)* Name Spike (after farewell) as sweetheart (9) VALE (farwell) + N + TINE (spike on a fork etc) I hope someone will enlighten me…īush envoy opening Republican art venue (5) E + R + ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts – a gallery in London) I noticed while solving that a lot of the answers are names, but I can’t see any connection between them that would constitute a theme. I made a bit of a slow start on this, but once a few answers were in the rest mostly fell satisfyingly into place.
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