English > clam: 4 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness. |
|---|
| Parts | clam | flesh of either hard ... / hard-shell or soft-shell clams |
|---|
| Narrower | geoduck | A large edible clam found burrowing deeply in sandy mud along the Pacific coast of North America |
|---|
| giant clam, Tridacna gigas | A large clam inhabiting reefs in the southern Pacific and weighing up to 500 pounds |
| quahog, quahaug, hard-shell clam, hard clam, round clam, Venus mercenaria, Mercenaria mercenaria | An edible American clam |
| razor clam, jackknife clam, knife-handle | marine clam having a long narrow curved thin shell |
| shipworm, teredinid | wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells |
| soft-shell clam, steamer, steamer clam, long-neck clam, Mya arenaria | An edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe |
| Broader | bivalve, pelecypod, lamellibranch | marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together |
|---|
| Spanish | almeja |
|---|
| Catalan | cloïssa |
|---|
| Verbs | clam | gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean |
|---|
