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Look up: Clam

  1. clam
    Latin, meaning: secretly, in secret.
    Found on http://archives.nd.edu/ccc.htm

  2. Clam
    These bivalve mollusks come in two varieties. Hard-shell clams include littleneck, cherrystone, and chowder clams. The soft-shelled clams, such as steamer, razor, and geoduck clams, have thin brittle shells that can't completely close.
    Found on http://www.nutribase.com

  3. clam
    [n] - flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams 2. [n] - burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud 3. [v] - gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Clam
    Clam noun [ Confer Clamp , Clam , transitive verb , Clammy .] 1. (Zoology) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam ( Mya arenaria ), ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/85

  5. Clam
    Clam (clăm) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Clammed (klămd); present participle & verbal noun Clamming .] [ Confer Anglo-Saxon clæman to clam, smear; akin to...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/85

  6. Clam
    Clam intransitive verb To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. [ R.] Dryden
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/85

  7. Clam
    Clam noun Claminess; moisture. [ R.] 'The clam of death.' Carlyle.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/85

  8. Clam
    Clam noun [ Abbrev. from clamor .] A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. Nares.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/85

  9. Clam
    Clam transitive verb & i. To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang. Nares.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/85

  10. clam
    noun burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  11. clam
    noun flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  12. clam
    verb gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  13. Clam
    • (v. t.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to t...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  14. clam
    in general, any member of the invertebrate class Bivalvia—mollusks with a bivalved shell (i.e., one with two separate sections). More than 12,000 ... [9 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/90

  15. Clam
    Clam is slang for the mouth.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  16. Clam
    Clam is slang for the mouth.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  17. Clam
    The clam is a marine Lamellibranch mollusc of the Pecten genus, akin to the cockle. The giant clam is the largest known bivalve mollusc with a shell as large as one metre across and weighing around 120 kg. Clams are found in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  18. CLAM
    (mathematics, tool) A system for symbolic mathematics, especially General Relativity. It was first implemented in ATLAS assembly language and later Lisp. See also ALAM. ['CLAM Programmer's Manual', Ray d'Inverno & Russell-Clark, King's College London, 1971]. (1994-11-08)
    Found on http://foldoc.org/CLAM

  19. clam
    • burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud
    • (United States) a piece of paper money worth one dollar

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  20. clam
    clam, common name for certain bivalve mollusks, especially for marine species that live buried in mud or sand and have valves (the two pieces of the shell) of equal size. The oval valves, which cover the right and left sides of the animal, are hinged together at the top by an elastic ligament. Clams...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08123

  21. clam
    Click images to enlargeCommon name for a bivalve mollusc. The giant clam Tridacna gigas of the Indopacific can grow to 1 m/3 ft across in 50 years and weigh, with the shell, 500 kg/1,000 lb. A giant clam produces a billion eggs in a single spawning. The term is usually applied to edible species,...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  22. Clam
    The word "`clam`" can be applied to freshwater mussels, and other freshwater bivalves, as well as marine bivalves.--> In the United States, "clam" can be used in several different ways: one, as a general term covering all bivalve molluscs. The word can also be used in a more limi...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clam



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