| NOUN | food | cockle | common edible European bivalve |
|---|---|---|---|
| animal | cockle | common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs | |
| VERB | motion | cockle, ripple, ruffle, riffle, undulate | stir up (water) so as to form ripples |
| contact | cockle, pucker, rumple, crumple, knit | to gather something into small wrinkles or folds |
| Sounds | kaa'kahl | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | Common edible European bivalve. | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of | edible cockle, Cardium edule | Common edible European cockle |
| Broader | shellfish | meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) |
| Spanish | berberecho | |
| Catalan | copinya, escopinya de gallet, escopinya | |
| Meaning | Common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs. | |
|---|---|---|
| Member of | Cardium, genus Cardium | type genus of the family Cardiidae |
| Narrower | edible cockle, Cardium edule | Common edible European cockle |
| Broader | bivalve, pelecypod, lamellibranch | marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together |
| Spanish | berberecho | |
| Catalan | escopinya | |
| Meaning | stir up (water) so as to form ripples. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | ripple, ruffle, riffle, undulate | |
| Entails | fold, fold up, turn up | bend or lay so that one part covers the other |
| Broader | flow, flux | Move or progress freely as if in a stream |
| Spanish | ondear, ondular | |
| Catalan | ondejar, ondular, onejar | |
| Meaning | To gather something into small wrinkles or folds. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | pucker, rumple, crumple, knit | |
| Broader | wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp | make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface |
| Similar to | draw | contract |
| Spanish | arrugar, chafarse | |
| Catalan | aixafar, arrugar-se, arrugar, xafar | |
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