The new international encyclopaedia . andforms. The English translation hear ye is stillemployed by most court criers in the UnitedStates. OYO, c/yo. The capital of the African Stateof Yoruba, now included in British Nigeria, sit-uated about 90 miles northeast of Abeokuta(Map: Africa. E 4). It has an estimated popu-lation of ( and its inhabitants are said tobe intelligent and skillful in the crafts. OYSTEB (OF. oistre, oiiislre. huistre, , from Lat. ostrea, ostreiim. from Gk. 6<r-TpeoK, oyster; connected with dariov, osteon, , bone). A sessile bivalve mollusk of the f
The new international encyclopaedia . andforms. The English translation hear ye is stillemployed by most court criers in the UnitedStates. OYO, c/yo. The capital of the African Stateof Yoruba, now included in British Nigeria, sit-uated about 90 miles northeast of Abeokuta(Map: Africa. E 4). It has an estimated popu-lation of ( and its inhabitants are said tobe intelligent and skillful in the crafts. OYSTEB (OF. oistre, oiiislre. huistre, , from Lat. ostrea, ostreiim. from Gk. 6<r-TpeoK, oyster; connected with dariov, osteon, , bone). A sessile bivalve mollusk of the fam-ily Ostreidfe, especially any of the numerousspecies, extinct and extant, of the genus shells aie irregular and unequal; the fixedleft valve generally spacious, .strongly convexwithcmt and excavated within ; right valve gener-ally plane or concave externally, always less con-vex than its fellow: both shells beaked; ligamenl-al area elongate or triangular; hinge toothless;adductor impression single and shell OF 08TKEA VIRGINICA. b. Hinge ; /, ligament; d, pg, anil 8q, (connective, and twoganglia of the nervous system ; p. palps ; br, blood-vesselfrom gills to auricle of heart.; au, auricle; ve. ventricle: s,external opening of and renal organs of right side;bp, pores from which the water issues into the branchialcanals after passing through the gills: nit, mantle (the ar-rows showing the direction of currents produced by cilia):ff, gills : ffc. cavity between the two mantle f()ld8 ; c/, cloa-ca : am, adductor muscle (cut across): hj. outline of organof Bojanus, the so-called kidney. The oyster of the eastern coast of the UnitedStates is Citrea Virginica. a valuable species ofprotean characters, formerly much subdivided bysystematists and almost impossible to shells are lateral and hinged anteriorly, anelastic pad (ligament) causing them normally togap. Closely applied to their inner faces and ex-tensible beyond their marg
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