0 a large flat sea creature that lives in a shell, some types of which can be eaten either cooked or uncooked, and other types of which produce pearls (= small round white precious stones)
1 one of two small pieces of chicken at the bottom of the backbone, which taste particularly good:
2 a water creature that grows within a shell, some types of which can be eaten, and other types of which produce pearls (= small, round, white stones used in jewelry)
I didn't realise that chickens had an oyster. Apparently they have two.
Other impressive dishes include macaroni with chicken oysters and smoked eel with horseradish cream.
It arguably beats the thrill even of a roasted chicken's oyster.
More importantly, the strong host response produced by oysters against parasites seems to be the principal factor structuring metazoan parasite communities of oysters.
The host response against parasites is suggested as the principal factor responsible for depauperate parasite communities of oysters.
Each tray was split into two parts and contained 100 oysters from two different families.
After inoculation, both challenged and control oysters were left overnight, out of seawater, to promote retention of the parasites, and then returned to seawater.
Copepods were rinsed in filtered sea water and were directly added in tanks containing uninfected oysters.