oysterhood

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"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."
"Only a miserable remnant of the oyster's progeny arrives at the stage of adult oysterhood."

From oyster + -hood.

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