quahog
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And the ocean quahog, a type of clam that can live more than 500 years, making it the longest living animal, is predicted to struggle.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025
Then he stumbled upon something that stunned him: a seemingly centuries-old quahog clam.
From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2023
Plath records their prodigious feats of eating: quahog fritters, onion soup, stews, meat loaf, lobster dinners, all fastidiously itemized, as though for later reimbursement.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2018
Tom Hazard, the protagonist of Haig’s new novel, is old — old “in the way that a tree, or a quahog clam, or a Renaissance painting is old,” he tells us.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2018
Doctor Gordon’s private hospital crowned a grassy rise at the end of a long, secluded drive that had been whitened with broken quahog shells.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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Scrabble: Words that Begin with Q
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