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Definition of Giant clam
1. Noun. A large clam inhabiting reefs in the southern Pacific and weighing up to 500 pounds.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Giant Clam
Literary usage of Giant clam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1873)
"... but differs materially from others of the same stock. CLAM, a common name for
several species of bivalve shells. The largest of these, the giant clam, ..."
2. Living Creatures of Water, Land and Air: For the Fourth Reader Grade by John Monteith (1888)
"The giant-clam shell is convenient as a receptacle. How immense it is! ...
Many years ago a giant-clam shell was presented to the Church of St. Sulpice in ..."
3. Elements of conchology by Lovell Reeve (1860)
"... called the giant clam, are a tribe of sluggish animals living in beds of many
specimens together among the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Seas. ..."
4. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"The term giant clam is also applied to Tridacna gigas, the largest of bivalves,
whose shells attain a weight of 250 lbs. each, and are sometimes used in ..."
5. The Strange Adventures of Captain Quinton: Being a Truthful Record of the by Robert Quinton (1912)
"The shark's head was out of water and it beat the surface and snapped its teeth
in impotent rage, but the giant clam held it fast and it is impossible to ..."
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