noun, feminine/ɥitʁ/plural: huîtres
oyster
Related: couteau à huîtres, huîtrier, plein comme une huître
From Old French uistre, oistre, from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon). The h is unetymological (no h in the Latin ostrea), but it used to disambiguate the pronunciation in the times when u and v were variants of the same letter, cf. huit, huile.