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clam

 
Noun clam has 3 senses
  1. clam - burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud
    --1 is a kind of
    bivalve, pelecypod, lamellibranch
    --1 has part: clam
    --1 has particulars:
     soft-shell clam, steamer, steamer clam, long-neck clam, Mya arenaria; quahog, quahaug, hard-shell clam, round clam, Venus mercenaria, Mercenaria mercenaria; geoduck; razor clam, jackknife clam, knife-handle; giant clam, Tridacna gigas; shipworm, teredinid
    Derived form: verb clam1
  2. dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam - a piece of paper money worth one dollar
    --2 is a kind of bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback
  3. clam - flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
    --3 is a kind of
    shellfish
    --3 is a part of clam
    --3 has particulars:
     quahaug, quahog, hard-shell clam, round clam; soft-shell clam, steamer, steamer clam, long-neck clam
    Derived form: verb clam1
Verb clam has 1 sense
  1. clam - gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
    --1 is one way to
    gather, garner, collect, pull together
    Derived forms: noun clam3, noun clam1
    Sample sentence:
    In the summer they like to go out and clam
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