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clam

noun as in bivalve living in ocean

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Executives from Toshiba and Mitsubishi helped crowd the dining room, which claimed 18-foot ceilings, a robota grill and a glassed-in fish room, a cool pantry for the oysters, clams, live scallops and sea urchins that populated his menus.

The bite-size morsel inside the shell is succulent and tender — no rubber-band chewiness like with a clam.

In sandy tidewater areas, people wade along and feel clams on the bottom with their feet, then scoop them up and stow them in a mesh bag tied to their waist or suspended in a small floating tube.

Most coastal states list where clams and mussels can be safely harvested, and those areas are subject to change.

Akin to San Francisco’s signature cioppino, it’s an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to seafood, with squidi, shrimp, clams, mussels and fish all thrown together into one delicious dish.

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You see this a lot when individuals who are accused of something decide to clam up, often under the advice of their attorney.

Back in California, Zach finds that people from whom he might learn about the bombing either die, disappear, or clam up.

All of which makes me wonder why Lindsey Graham and his cohort were so afraid the guy would clam up.

Then I thought the non-celebrities would clam up because the cameras would make them nervous.

“The Clam Castle was crowded with taxpayers,” Pete says in typical fashion.

The recovery of the oyster, clam and other edible shell-fish is also a feature of the work which the Lake Company has in view.

Its shores were long stretches of mud-flats, corrugated everywhere with thousands of clam-holes.

Then I saw that the two halves of the clam-shell bucket were slightly open, just wide enough to let me squeeze in.

Down fell that pretty innocent, as falls a snow-white lamb; Her hair drooped round her pallid cheeks, like sea-weed on a clam.

"It's your kind of clam chowder, too," said Mrs. Hills, shaking her head.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to clam, such as: mollusk, cherrystone, littleneck, and quahog.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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