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Hard clam

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round clamnounSynonym of hard clam.
quahognounAn edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.
tea clamnoun(US, dialect, archaic) A small quahog.
quaghognoun(rare) Alternative form of quahog. [An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.]
cohognoun(US, Dartmouth College, 1970s, slang, derogatory) A co-ed.
quohognounAlternative form of quahog. [An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.]
quahaugnoun(dated) Alternative form of quahog (“edible hard-shell clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, used in chowders”). [An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.]
littlenecknoun(US) A small hard clam, larger than a countneck but smaller than a topneck.
clamnounA bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams or hen clams (Spisula solidissima), and other species, possibly originally applied to clams of species Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
ocean quahognounAn edible clam native to the North Atlantic Ocean, Arctica islandica.
basket clamnounAny of many bivalve molluscs of the family Corbiculidae, now considered a synonym of the family Cyrenidae.
duck clamnounAny clam of the family Mactridae.
smooth clamnounAny of species Callista chione of bivalve mollusks.
butter clamnounA species of clam, Saxidomus gigantea, commonly harvested as food.
ark clamnounAny of the small to large-sized edible saltwater clams in the family Arcidae.
topnecknoun(US) A hard clam of an intermediate size, larger than a littleneck but smaller than a cherrystone.
stuffienoun(New England) A stuffed clam, typically quahog.
cherrystonenounSynonym of cherry pit.
bean clamnounA bivalve of the genus Donax.
nut clamnounAny of the family Nuculidae of small saltwater clams.

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