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Definition of Ostrea gigas
1. Noun. A large oyster native to Japan and introduced along the Pacific coast of the United States; a candidate for introduction in Chesapeake Bay.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostrea Gigas
Literary usage of Ostrea gigas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Code of Federal Regulations: Title 21: Food and Drugs by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Staff (2005)
"... if of the species ostrea gigas; "Oysters" or "Olympia oysters", if of the
species Ostrea lurida. (iii) When the form of oysters specified in paragraph ..."
2. Outlines of the Geology of Japan by Chishitsu Chōsajo (Japan) (1902)
"The fourth bed consists of tufaceous sandstone with abundant ostrea gigas.
A little northward, the petty Tertiary exposure of Yone- gawa on the east of the ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... water throughout the whole archipelago; and ostrea gigas, a very large salt
water species found in deep water. Many other species of Ostrea are found in ..."
4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"... and he has identified also ostrea gigas Thunberg. They occur in a bed in the
northeastern angle of the Okhotsk Sea, on a small bay in the Gulf of ..."
5. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1873)
"angolata seems to do well when introduced from the Tagus into the oyster-beds of
Arcachon : Fischer, Act. Soc. L. Bord, xxvii. p. 81. ostrea gigas (Thunb. ..."
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