HUITRE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Edible body of any of numerous oysters

Synonyms:

huitre; oyster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("huitre" is a kind of...):

shellfish (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "huitre"):

oysters Rockefeller (oysters spread with butter and spinach and seasonings and baked on the half shell)

blue point; bluepoint (oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw)

Holonyms ("huitre" is a part of...):

oyster (marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters)