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Definition of Saddle oyster
1. Noun. Thin-shelled bivalve having the right valve deeply notched.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saddle Oyster
Literary usage of Saddle oyster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Reprint of Annual Reports and Other Papers on the Geology of the Virginias by William Barton Rogers (1884)
"The upper portion consists of a rocky mass of cemented shell, chiefly the
saddle-oyster 20 " At Walker Tomlin's, on the south side of the river, ..."
2. A Reprint of Annual Reports and Other Papers on the Geology of the Virginias by William Barton Rogers (1884)
"The upper portion consists of a rocky mass of cemented shell, chiefly the
saddle-oyster 20 " At Walker Tomlin's, on the south side of the river, ..."
3. A Conchological Manual by George Brettingham Sowerby (1852)
"... called the Chinese "Window Shell, and the P. Sella, called the saddle oyster,
from the anterior margin being turned up so as to resemble a saddle. ..."
4. Natural History of Hawaii: Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the by William Alanson Bryan (1915)
"Next to the oysters come the pretty scale-like golden saddle oyster (pipi) or
Anomia shells. The common species 1(i are irregular in form and the valves are ..."
5. A Manual of the Mollusca: Being a Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ralph Tate (1880)
"... the " saddle-oyster," is remarkably striated. In P. placenta, PI. XVI., Fig.
6, the anterior cartilage ridge is only half as long as the other, ..."
6. Report of the Geological Reconnoissance of the State of Virginia: Made Under by Virginia Board of Public Works, William Barton Rogers (1836)
"The upper portion consists of a rocky mass of cemented shell, chiefly the
saddle-oyster, - 20 At Walker Tomlin's, ..."
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