HUITRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does huitre mean? 

• HUITRE (noun)
  The noun HUITRE has 1 sense:

1. edible body of any of numerous oysters

  Familiarity information: HUITRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUITRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Edible body of any of numerous oysters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

huitre; oyster

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)