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clam

clam is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, transitive/intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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 the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 12 senses

Definitions

  1. 1transitive verb

    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 the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.

  2. 2transitive verb

    Strong pinchers or forceps.

  3. 3transitive verb

    A kind of vise, usually of wood.

  4. 4transitive verb

    To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.

  5. 5intransitive verb

    To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.

  6. 6noun

    Claminess; moisture.

  7. 7noun

    A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.

  8. 8transitive/intransitive verb

    To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

  9. 9noun

    burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness

  10. 10noun

    flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams

  11. 11noun

    a piece of paper money worth one dollar

    Synonyms

    buckdollar
  12. 12verb

    gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

Synonyms

buckdollar

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in clam:

calm

Common word forms

clamsclamerclammedclammerclamming

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