Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of oyster, of the genus Dendrostræa, which grows on the roots of the mangrove.
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The river was a tidal one, of no great breadth, and the margin was covered by a thick growth of the mangrove shrub, on the boughs of which the sharp-edged shells of the tree-oyster stuck in strings and clusters in great numbers.
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845
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