OYSTER Antonyms

• decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers

• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer

• the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22

• a quarrelsome grouch

• the edible flesh of any of various crabs

• a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body

• a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply

• direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

• scurry sideways like a crab

• fish for crab

• complain

• any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills

• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces

• the flesh of fish used as food

• the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20

• seek indirectly

• catch or try to catch fish or shellfish

• flesh of a lobster

• any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae

• black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine

• marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc.

• tentacles of octopus prepared as food

• bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles

• one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

• edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces

• thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled

• edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions

• decorate an edge with scallops

• bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top

• form scallops in

• fish for scallops

• shape or cut in scallops

• disparaging terms for small people

• any of various edible decapod crustaceans

• small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible

• fish for shrimp

• freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell

• edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic

• gather snails

• (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food

• widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins