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Japanese oyster

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noun

  1. a commercial oyster, Ostrea gigas, of the Pacific coast of North America, introduced from Japan.


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Along the way, Wilbrink had pointed out a Japanese oyster, the outline of a flat fish on the sea’s bottom and squiggly lugworm castings.

From Washington Post