oyster bed
nounDefinition of oyster bed
: a place where oysters grow or are cultivated
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Signature projects already underway range from creating floodable parks to using oyster beds as a kind of natural breakwater. — Anthony Flint, BostonGlobe.com, "Tired of waiting for national push, a buzzing hive of climate resilience innovators is at work in Boston," 8 Aug. 2019 There are long, straight roads everywhere else, with views of oyster beds, grazing cows, and the sea. — Matt Hranek, Condé Nast Traveler, "Great Drives: Speeding Through the French Countryside in the Audi A8," 25 Sep. 2018 The oysters are part of a plan to create oyster beds. — Lara Korte, WSJ, "Seafood Restaurants’ Leftover Shells to Become ‘Living Barrier Reef’ on Long Island," 14 July 2018 Above, in the shallow waters of the sea, oyster beds have yielded pearls since antiquity. — The Economist, "From pearls to black goldHow oil transformed the Gulf," 21 June 2018 At the time, the city’s waterfront had lost the natural oyster beds that once cultivated city harbors and provided a natural way to dispense wave forces. — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, "NatureStructure looks at how engineers and architects can work with, rather than against, the natural world.," 11 May 2018 Officials opened two spillways in Louisiana to protect New Orleans and Baton Rouge, sacrificing farms and coastal oyster beds. — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, "Taming the Mighty Mississippi May Have Caused Bigger Floods," 10 Apr. 2018 The local fisheries and oyster beds are still thriving. — Amor Towles, New York Times, "In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan Sets a Crime Story on the Waterfront," 3 Oct. 2017 Other ideas include erecting breakwaters around Staten Island that would double as oyster beds, and reconfiguring the Meadowlands, the polluted wetlands of urban New Jersey, with berms and marshes. — Washington Post, "5 years after Superstorm Sandy, the lessons haven’t sunk in," 27 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'oyster bed.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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