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Home Dictionary Name: clamClam
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds especially those that are edible as the long clam Mya arenaria the quahog or round clam Venus mercenaria the sea clam or hen clam Spisula solidissima and other species of the United States The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas a huge East Indian bivalve...
Sea clam
Any one of the large bivalve mollusks found on the open seacoast especially those of the family Mactridaelig as the common American species Mactra solidissima or Spisula solidissima called also beach clam and surf clam...
Quahog
An American market clam Venus mercenaria It is sold in large quantities and is highly valued as food Called also round clam and hard clam...
Bdellomorpha
An order of Nemertina including the large leechlike worms Malacobdella often parasitic in clams...
Bivalve
A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface as in the clam or by one as in the oyster See Mollusca...
Chock full
Quite full full to capacity choke full as chowder chock full of clams...
Chowder
A dish made of fresh fish or clams biscuit onions etc stewed together...
Clambake
The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones between layers of seaweed hence a picnic party gathered on such an occasion...
clamshell
the shell of a clam...
Dimya
An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle as the common clam See Bivalve...
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