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.
Definitions
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. Strong pinchers or forceps.
- transitive verb. A kind of vise, usually of wood.
- transitive verb. To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
- intransitive verb. To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
- noun. Claminess; moisture.
- noun. A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
- transitive/intransitive verb. To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
- noun. burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
- noun. flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
- noun. a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- verb. gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
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Common word forms
clams, clamer, clammed, clammer, clamming
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