oyster shell

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   a shell of an oyster

   Broadershell

Questions about oyster shell

What does oyster shell mean?

oyster shell means "a shell of an oyster".

Is oyster shell a common word?

oyster shell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.