rock oyster

noun

: any of various oysters or other bivalves occurring attached to rocks:

a

: a mollusk of the genus Hinnites represented on the west coast of North America by a large flattened bivalve (H. giganteus)

b

: a mollusk of Chama or related genera

c

: jingle shell

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