Crossword-Solution: OSTREA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ostrea | n. | A genus of bivalve Mollusca which includes the true oysters. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OSTREA | anagram | AORTES, ASTERO, EASTOR, ERATOS, OATERS, ORATES, OSETRA, SOREAT, STEARO, TOSEAR |
We have 4 clues for the answer “OSTREA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bivalve genus as of bluepoints | 1 answer |
| Oyster genus | 1 answer |
| A BIVALVE MOLLUSC | 10 answers |
| Bivalve. | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with OSTREA (5)
The limestone, where purest, is white, highly crystalline, and full of cavities: it includes small pebbles of quartz, broken shells, teeth of sharks, and sometimes, as I was informed, large bones: it often contains so much sand as to pass into a calcareous sandstone, and in such parts the great Ostrea Patagonica chiefly abounds.
Again at Colonia, a Frenchman found, in digging the foundations of a house, a great mass of the Ostrea Patagonica (of which I saw many fragments), packed together just beneath the surface, and directly superimposed on the gneiss.
With the exception of a few of the Ostrea Patagonica, which appeared to have rolled down from the cliff above, no organic remains were found.
Five miles higher up the valley, and again thirty miles higher up (that is twenty miles from the nearest range of the Cordillera), the lower plain included within the upper escarpments, is formed, as seen on the banks of the river, of a nearly similar but finer-grained, more earthy, laminated sandstone, alternating with argillaceous beds, and containing numerous moderately sized pebbles of the same rocks, and some shells of the great Ostrea Patagonica.
Ostrea, small species, in imperfect state; it appeared to me like a small kind now living in, but very rare in the bay.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1976–1997).