: a young oyster especially of a size for transplantation
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According to the report, the officers were looking for people allegedly violating state statues for seed oyster harvesting.—
Caroline Haskins,
Wired News,
4 Dec. 2025 Factor in the seed oysters shipped across the nation and beyond, and the number jumps to the hundreds of millions.—
Richard Stenger,
SFChronicle.com,
3 July 2018