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oyster shell

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Noun1.oyster shelloyster shell - a shell of an oyster                
shell - the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
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oyster shell n → conchiglia di ostrica
oyster shell n → conchiglia di ostrica


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Simply at the point I started from, namely, those oyster shells are there, in regular layers, five hundred feet above the sea, and no man knows how they got there.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Ida pushed the champagne bottles obtrusively forward, in the direction of the door, and scattered oyster shells over the cloth.
Beyond the City by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
The footman led the way toward the paling through the boards and the bricks, the oyster shells and the broken crockery, that strewed the ground.
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