单词 | giant clam |
释义 | > as lemmasgiant clam c. Applied to foreign bivalves of the family Chamaceæ, comprehending the largest of shellfish, as the giant clam or giant clamp ( Tridacna gigas), thorny clam ( Chama Lazarus), etc. See also yellow clam at yellow adj. and n. Compounds 2b(a). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > integro-pallialia > family Chamidae clam1688 chama1753 chamite1799 clamp-shell1835 cyclad1866 monopleurid1903 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 340/1 A Clamme is a kind of large shell-fish of the Muskle or Cockle species. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 176 The Clam is a sort of Oyster [i.e. a species of chama] which grows so fast to the Rock, that there is no separating it from thence, therefore we did open it where it grows, and take out the Meat, which is very large, fat, and sweet. 1784 J. Douglas Cook's Voy. Pacific I. ii. iii. 217 Spangles of the richest colours, that glowed from a number of large clams. 1855 W. S. Dallas in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature II. 431 The tridacna gigas (or clam-shell). 1861 J. Lamont Seasons with Sea-horses ix. 142 The shells tridacnæ and cardia, vulgarly called clams and cockles. < as lemmas |
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