Oyster

The word oyster is used as a common name for a number of distinct groups of bivalve molluscs which live in marine or brackish habitats. The valves are highly calcified.

Some kinds of oyster are commonly consumed, cooked or raw, by humans as a delicacy. Other kinds such as pearl oysters, generally not eaten by humans, are harvested for the pearl produced within the mantle.

Read more about Oyster:  Etymology, Anatomy, Habitat and Behaviour, Marine Pollution, Human History, Oysters As Food, Diseases

Famous quotes containing the word oyster:

    I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
    Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
    George Berkeley (1685–1753)

    But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal.... No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
    Zora Neale Hurston (1907–1960)