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单词 geoduck clam
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geoduck clam
A very large edible bivalve mollusc, Panopea generosa (family Hiatellidae), of the Pacific coast of North America, which burrows deep in sandy mud and has shell valves which do not wholly cover the body or the very long siphon. Also: (New Zealand) a similar mollusc of the same genus found off New Zealand coasts, esp. P. zelandica. Also geoduck clam.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Myacidae
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1881 H. Hemphill Let. in Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. 1 21 Glycimeris generosa. Olympia, Washington Territory... The boys at Olympia call them ‘Geoducks’; they dig them on a certain sand bar at extreme low tide, and sell them to a merchant who ships them to Portland, Oreg... The boys inform me that the Indians on the Sound call them Quenux, and dry them for food with the other clams.
1882 Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. 1 Index 455/1 Geoduck clam, introduction of, upon the Atlantic coast.
1895 Nautilus Aug. 38 This shell is commonly called the ‘Goe-duck’.
1925 St. Nicholas Nov. 35/1 The geoduck, she found, was a gigantic clam that was quite delicious when Nora, the cook, had fried it in a batter.
1962 J. W. Hedgpeth Introd. Seashore Life San Francisco Bay 114 The shell of the Gaper is more oval in outline and deeply dished.., while that of the Goeduck is shallower and rectangular at the siphon (posterior) end.
1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 20 Feb. 4/3 The suction power of a goeyduck, in this loose sand and water formation, was tremendous.
1978 Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 8 Apr. 8/2 Gooeyducks are delicious, but the geoduck clam fishery did not get started till several years ago.
1989 Listener 6 Nov. 33 Alick Shaw..uses up to 14 kilograms of geoduck in chowder weekly [in his Wellington restaurant].
2004 Smithsonian Apr. 92/1 I survey the ice-lined crates containing sea snails, rock cod, sea urchin and a Vancouver favorite, geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck)—a giant clam.
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