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Definition of Edible cockle
1. Noun. Common edible European cockle.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Edible Cockle
Literary usage of Edible cockle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. LMBC Memoirs on Typical British Marine Plants and Animals by University of Liverpool Dept. of Oceanography (1899)
"THE edible cockle (Cardium edule) is by far tbe commonest member of the genus
... The edible cockle is gregarious all along the coast line where suitable ..."
2. The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two by Hugh Miller (1871)
"And such also is the history of the common edible mussel and common periwinkle;
whereas the common edible cockle, and common edible pecten (F. opercularis) ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... especially, a gull or tern, and, in particular, the sooty tern. See TERN.
EGG COCKLE. The common edible cockle of Europe. See COCKLE. ..."
4. The Journal of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1857)
"But the common edible cockle appears to have the individuals of different sexes,
and the same may he said with regard to ..."
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