hard clam
English Thesaurus
1. an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | clam, |
| definition | : | burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | littleneck, littleneck clam, |
| definition | : | a young quahog (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cherrystone, cherrystone clam, |
| definition | : | a half-grown quahog (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | hard-shell clam, quahaug, quahog, round clam, |
| definition | : | Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes (noun.food) |
| member meronym | : | genus venus, venus, |
| definition | : | type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells (noun.animal) |
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