oyster

Summary

oyster is a food ingredient^[1]. oyster ranks in the top 7% of food_ingredient entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,233 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• oyster's instance of is recorded as food ingredient^[3].
• oyster's instance of is recorded as paraphyletic group^[4].
• oyster's instance of is recorded as organisms known by a particular common name^[5].
• oyster is classified at the rank of infraclass^[6].
• oyster belongs to the parent taxon Autobranchia^[7].
• Under binomial nomenclature, oyster is Pteriomorphia^[8].
• oyster is a type of Mollusca^[9].
• oyster is a type of shellfish^[10].
• oyster is a type of seafood^[11].
• oyster's Commons category is recorded as Oysters^[12].
• oyster's Unicode character is recorded as 🦪^[13].
• oyster's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Oysters^[14].
• oyster's Commons gallery is recorded as Oyster^[15].
• oyster's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[16].
• oyster's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[17].
• oyster's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge^[18].
• oyster's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia^[19].
• oyster's different from is recorded as Olustra^[20].
• oyster's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_02000079^[21].
• oyster's taxon known by this common name is recorded as Anomiidae^[22].
• oyster's taxon known by this common name is recorded as Dimyidae^[23].
• oyster's taxon known by this common name is recorded as Gryphaeidae^[24].
• oyster's taxon known by this common name is recorded as Malleidae^[25].
• oyster's taxon known by this common name is recorded as Ostreidae^[26].
• oyster's taxon known by this common name is recorded as Placunidae^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for oyster include Oyster card^[28], a transit pass^[29], in United Kingdom^[30], founded in 2003^[31]; prairie oyster^[32]; Viennese oyster^[33], a sex position^[34]; and Oesterdam^[35], a dam^[36], in Netherlands^[37].

Why It Matters

oyster ranks in the top 7% of food_ingredient entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,233 views/month).^[2] oyster has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[38] oyster is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[39]

Entities named for oyster include Oyster card^[28], a transit pass^[29], in United Kingdom^[30], founded in 2003^[31]; prairie oyster^[32]; Viennese oyster^[33], a sex position^[34]; and Oesterdam^[35], a dam^[36], in Netherlands^[37].