| 单词 | sea-clam |
| 释义 | > as lemmassea-clam sea-clam n. (also sea-clamp) ‘a clam, clamp, or forceps closed by a weight, for use with deep-sea sounding-lines’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891). sea-clam sea-clam n. one of several species of clam found on the Atlantic coast of North America esp. the surf clam, Spisula solidissima; cf. hen clam n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > of particular type > other types heart1750 sea-clam1765 Mactra1777 terebellum1851 red nose1856 red nose1864 taxodont1896 Pismo clam1911 pectinoid1952 1765 J. Bartram Diary 29 July in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1942) 33 16/2 There is many clam shels of different sises..ye very same with our sea clams. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iv. 135 The shores of this island [sc. Nantucket] abound with the soft-shelled, the hard-shelled, and the great sea clams. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) v. 78 The sea-clam, or hen, was not easily obtained. 1935 J. C. Lincoln Cape Cod Yesterdays 49 Along the outer bar, almost two miles from shore..were the large ‘sea clams’. 1960 J. J. Rowlands Spindrift 83 Sea clams are from four to six inches long and about four inches wide. < as lemmas |
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