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cockle

 
Noun cockle has 2 senses
  1. cockle - common edible European bivalve
    --1 is a kind of
    shellfish
    --1 is a part of edible cockle, Cardium edule
  2. cockle - common edible European bivalve mollusk having a rounded shell with radiating ribs
    --2 is a kind of
    bivalve, pelecypod, lamellibranch
    --2 is a member of Cardium, genus Cardium
    --2 has particulars: edible cockle, Cardium edule
Verb cockle has 2 senses
  1. ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate - stir up (water) so as to form ripples
    --1 is one way to flow, flux
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s something
  2. pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit - to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"
    --2 is one way to wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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