oyster
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Summary
oyster is a food ingredient[1]. oyster ranks in the top 7% of food ingredient entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,284 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: paraphyletic group[3], organisms known by a particular common name[4]
- Taxon rank: infraclass[5]
- Parent taxon: Autobranchia[6]
- Taxon name: Pteriomorphia[7]
- Subclass of: Mollusca[8], shellfish[9], seafood[10]
- Commons category: Oysters[11]
- Unicode character: 🦪[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Oysters[13]
- Commons gallery: Oyster[14]
- Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[15], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[17], New International Encyclopedia[18]
- Different from: Olustra[19]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_02000079[20]
- Taxon known by this common name: Anomiidae[21], Dimyidae[22], Gryphaeidae[23], Malleidae[24], Ostreidae[25], Placunidae[26], Pteriidae[27], Spondylidae[28], Pteriomorphia[29]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for oyster include Viennese oyster[30], a sex position[31]; Oyster card[32], a transit pass[33], in United Kingdom[34], founded in 2003[35]; prairie oyster[36]; and Oesterdam[37], a dam[38], in Netherlands[39].
Why It Matters
oyster has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] oyster is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]
Entities named for oyster include Viennese oyster[30], a sex position[31]; Oyster card[32], a transit pass[33], in United Kingdom[34], founded in 2003[35]; prairie oyster[36]; and Oesterdam[37], a dam[38], in Netherlands[39].