oysterhood en · NOUN
Etymology
From oyster + -hood.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state of being an oyster.
Only a miserable remnant of the oyster's progeny arrives at the stage of adult oysterhood.
1934, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection, volume 2482, page 64:It has been computed that two millions of these ciliated embryos may be produced by a single oyster, but few, comparatively speaking, grow up to oysterhood.
1867, The North British Review, volume 46, page 195: