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Pismo|ˈpɪzməʊ|
Also pismo.
The name of Pismo Beach, California, used attrib. in Pismo clam, a large, thick-shelled, edible clam, Tivela stultorum, belonging to the family Veneridæ and found on the south-west coast of North America.
1913Calif. Fish & Game Comm. Fish Bull. i. 27 The Pismo clam..flourishes in open sandy beaches. 1923Ibid. vii. 5 Commercially the Pismo clam ranks first in importance in California among clams and third among all the mollusks. 1949Natural Hist. June 252/1 Five minutes of barefoot beach scratching had uncovered half a sack of four-inch Pismo clams. 1970B. H. McConnaughey Introd. Marine Biol. viii. 227/2 A large, heavy-shelled clam, the pismo clam, occurs on California beaches at the lowest intertidal and subtidal levels. |