| 单词 | clam |
| 释义 | clam (once / 2172 pages) 1nv 2n A clam is a marine animal with two shells that eats by straining food from water, sand, or mud. You can sometimes find clams by digging in the sand close to the seashore. The largest clams are used for food by humans, including the scallop, a particularly big form of clam. When you order soup in New England, it's not unlikely that it will be clam chowder, a creamy, thick stew with potatoes and pieces of clam. When clam is a verb, it means "to dig clams on the beach," and if your friend offers to pay you 1000 clams for your old car, she means "dollars." WORD FAMILYclam: clammed, clamming, clams USAGE EXAMPLESPasquale Jones is also home to one of the best clam pies in town. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) State Fish and Wildlife say clam populations at four beaches in Jefferson, Clallam and Island counties will allow an extended opportunity. Seattle Times(Dec 25, 2016) The coastal razor clam seasons mantra remains a good and bad news situation. Seattle Times(Dec 19, 2016) 1 1n burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness Hypo|Hyper Mya arenaria, long-neck clam, soft-shell clam, steamer, steamer clam an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe Mercenaria mercenaria, Venus mercenaria, hard clam, hard-shell clam, quahaug, quahog, round claman edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians geoducka large edible clam found burrowing deeply in sandy mud along the Pacific coast of North America; weighs up to six pounds; has siphons that can extend to several feet and cannot be withdrawn into the shell jackknife clam, knife-handle, razor clammarine clam having a long narrow curved thin shell Tridacna gigas, giant clama large clam inhabiting reefs in the southern Pacific and weighing up to 500 pounds shipworm, teredinidwormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells littleneck, littleneck clama young quahog cherrystone, cherrystone clama half-grown quahog teredotypical shipworm Bankia setaceae, giant northwest shipwormgiant shipworm of the Pacific coast of North America bivalve, lamellibranch, pelecypod marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together 2n flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams Hypo|Hyper hard-shell clam, quahaug, quahog, round clam Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes long-neck clam, soft-shell clam, steamer, steamer clama clam that is usually steamed in the shell littleneck, littleneck clama quahog when young and small; usually eaten raw; an important food popular in New York cherrystone, cherrystone clamsmall quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino shellfish meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) 3v gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean 2Hyper collect, garner, gather, pull together assemble or get together n a piece of paper money worth one dollar Syn|Hyper buck, dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill Federal Reserve note, bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill, government note, greenback, note a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) |
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