seed oyster

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   a young oyster especially of a size for transplantation

   Broaderoyster

Questions about seed oyster

What does seed oyster mean?

seed oyster means "a young oyster especially of a size for transplantation".

Is seed oyster a common word?

seed oyster 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.