oyster bed
a place where oysters breed or are cultivated.
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How to use oyster bed in a sentence
A University of Massachusetts study found that with no oyster beds present, the wave energy in New York City harbors is 200% higher.
Undersea vertical farms could be the future of sustainable seafood | Maria Finn/Hothouse | October 13, 2021 | Popular-ScienceStories say island women would bake cakes to send off with husbands who worked the oyster beds, and over the years the cakes took on more and more layers.
It resembles a tomato-forward bouillabaisse and smells like the oyster beds of Louisiana.
This briny oyster soup brings the smells and tastes of Louisiana’s coast to your table | Dayana Sarkisova | December 17, 2020 | Washington PostThey took an aerial tour of oyster beds and wandered Pike’s Place Market.
To Find Hope in American Cooking, James Beard Looked to the West Coast | John Birdsall | October 2, 2020 | EaterThe mutineers had learned where the oyster-bed was, and therefore could be no longer restrained by that consideration.
Adrift on the Pacific | Edward S. Ellis
In short, this was not the pearl-oyster bed which had brought the two friends the greater part of the way around the globe.
Adrift on the Pacific | Edward S. EllisThis idea comes from the fact that an oyster-bed may be free from them one day and the next be covered by these pests.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote ArnoldPart of the moat had become an oyster-bed and was so filled up as to be fordable.
The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace | Frederick Morse CutlerThe oyster-bed among the rocks was frequently renewed, and furnished excellent molluscs.
Abandoned | Jules Verne
British Dictionary definitions for oyster bed
a place, esp on the sea bed, where oysters breed and grow naturally or are cultivated for food or pearls: Also called: oyster bank, oyster park
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