Translingual

Ostrea edulis

Proper noun

Ostrea f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ostreidae – the oysters.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Animalia - kingdom; Mollusca - phylum; Bivalvia - class; Pteriomorphia - subclass; Ostreoida - order; Ostreina - suborder; Ostreoidea - superfamily; Ostreidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Ostrea edulis (European flat oyster) - type species; see Ostrea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies for more species

Latin

ostrea (an oyster)

Alternative forms

• ostreum (rare)

Noun

ostrea f ‎(genitive ostreae); first declension

1. oyster, mussel

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• ostreārium
• ostreārius
• ostreātus
• ostreōsus

Related terms

• ostrum

Descendants

See also

• ostrum

References

• ostrea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ostrea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• OSTREA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ostrea”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.