The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word OYSTER
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More clues leading to the result OYSTER
- Seafood starters on one's yacht, sometimes to eat raw
- Awful story about English seafood
- Horrible story about European seafood
- Strange story about European mollusc
- Strange story about the end of expensive seafood
- Occupant of bed regrets you're taking it back
- Losing head, violently destroy marine mollusc
- Wretched story about English seafood item
- Taciturn guy's unexpected story about East
- Aquatic creature’s key part of fantastic story
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What does OYSTER mean?
OYSTER noun- Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
- The delicate morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
- A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
- (by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.
- A shoplifter.
- To fish for oysters.
- Of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.