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mananosay U.S.|mænəˈnəʊseɪ|
Also mananose, maninose.
[prob. ad. Algonquian name.]
The soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria.
[1709J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 162 Man of Noses are a Shell-Fish commonly found amongst us.] 1843J. E. DeKay Zool. N.Y. V. 240 Mya arenaria.. in some districts..still retains its ancient aboriginal appellation of Maninose. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 84 The Soft Clam or Mananosay (Mya arenaria), obtained from the shores of tidal rivers by digging one or two feet in the loose sand. It has a long, extensible, cartilaginous snout, or proboscis, through which it ejects water; whence it is also called Stem-clam. 1870Putnam's Monthly Mag. May 525/1 Even to the toothsome Manonosays that squirted water up through the sand what time the tides were out. 1895Sun (N.Y.) 30 July 9/1 Mananosay, maninose (Maryland), man-of-noses (North Carolina), names for the round clam, from an Algonquian word meaning ‘shellfish that one gathers by hand’. 1967L. S. Tawes Coasting Captain xiii. 443, I used to take my launch and go fishing, sometimes digging mananoses. |