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• Clam shrimp — Temporal range: Devonian–Recent …   Wikipedia

• clam — [klam] n. pl. clams or clam [< obs. clam, clamp (< OE clamm, bond, fetter: for IE base see CLIMB); with ref. to the action of the shells] 1. any of various hard shell, usually edible, bivalve mollusks, some of which live in the shallows of… …   English World dictionary

• clam — ► NOUN ▪ a large marine bivalve mollusc with shells of equal size. ► VERB (clammed, clamming) (clam up) informal ▪ stop talking abruptly. ORIGIN Old English, «a bond or bondage»; related to CLAMP(Cf. ↑clamper) …   English terms dictionary

• Clam — For other uses, see Clam (disambiguation). Clam Edible clams in the family Veneridae Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

• clam — clam1 clamlike, adj. clammer, n. /klam/, n., v., clammed, clamming. n. 1. any of various bivalve mollusks, esp. certain edible species. Cf. quahog, soft shell clam. 2. Informal. a secretive or silent person. 3 …   Universalium

• clam — noun 1》 a large marine bivalve mollusc with shells of equal size, several kinds of which are edible. [Mya arenaria (softshell clam), Venus mercenaria (hardshell clam, both N. America), Tridacna gigas (giant clam, Indo Pacific), and many other… …   English new terms dictionary

• clam — [[t]klæm[/t]] n. v. clammed, clam•ming 1) ivt any of various usu. edible bivalve mollusks with equal shells closed by two adductor muscles, inhabiting shallow seas or fresh waters Compare quahog 2) inf Informal. a secretive or silent person 3)… …   From formal English to slang

• clam — [OE] Old English clam meant ‘something for tying up or fastening, fetter’; it can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic base *klam , which also produced clamp [14] and is related to climb. There is a gap in the word’s history in early Middle… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• clam — [OE] Old English clam meant ‘something for tying up or fastening, fetter’; it can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic base *klam , which also produced clamp [14] and is related to climb. There is a gap in the word’s history in early Middle… …   Word origins

• clam — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English clamm bond, fetter; akin to Old High German klamma constriction and perhaps to Latin glomus ball Date: before 12th century clamp, clasp II. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: 1clam; from… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Giant clam — In Japanese cuisine, Geoduck (mirugai) is sometimes referred to as giant clam . Taxobox name = Giant clam status = VU status system = iucn2.3 image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Mollusca classis = Bivalvia ordo = Veneroida familia =… …   Wikipedia