Definitions
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- adjective Resembling an
oyster or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And if it does, come to think of it, would it be any less off-putting than a handful of popcorn filling your mouth with slippery, oysterlike flavors?
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The new inhabitant -- who came himself from a foreign land, or whose father or grandfather came -- has little claim to be called a Salemite; he has no conception of the oysterlike tenacity with which an old settler, over whom his third century is creeping, clings to the spot where his successive generations have been imbedded.
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The whole composition has been invigorated, even the background, which now has an oysterlike sheen.
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The new inhabitant ” who came himself from a foreign land, or whose father or grandfather came ” has little claim to be called a Salemite; he has no conception of the oysterlike tenacity with which an old settler, over whom his third century is creeping, clings to the spot where his successive generations have been imbedded.
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