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Definition of Hard-shell clam

1. Noun. Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes.

2. Noun. An edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard-shell Clam

hard-handed hard-headed hard-hearted hard-hitting hard-line hard-liner hard-liners hard-mouthed hard-nosed hard-of-hearing

hard-ons hard-pressed hard-sell hard-shell hard-shell clam (current term) hard-shell crab hard-skinned puffball hard-to-please(a) hard-wire hard-wired

hard-won hard-working hard and fast hard as nails hard beech hard by hard c hard candy hard case

Literary usage of Hard-shell clam

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Zoology by Robert William Hegner (1915)
"hard-shell clam. — The hard-shell clams are very abundant on our eastern coast. One species, Venus mercenaria (Fig. 88, A), is commonly known in hotels and ..."

2. A Course in Invertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1915)
"... PELECYPODA A hard-shell clam (Venus mercenaria) This is a very common marine mollusk which inhabits the sandy bottoms of the ocean along our shores. ..."

3. New York Teachers' Monographs by Sidney Marsden Fuerst (1904)
"Let us examine carefully a hard-shell clam. On opening the shell, we note, first, the mantle, a thin, delicate skin covering the outside of the animal and ..."

4. Food Industries: An Elementary Textbook on the Production and Manufacture of by Hermann Theodore Vulté, Sadie Bird Vanderbilt (1920)
"... which inhabits the sandy and muddy bottom of shallow bays, and the quahaug or hard-shell clam occurring in the sandy beaches of the same localities. ..."

5. The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of Living by Julia Ellen Rogers (1908)
"5 Nuttall's hard-shell clam, ... 4. 6 East Coast hard-shell clam, or "Little Neck," Venus mercenaria. ..."

6. The Submarine in War and Peace: Its Developments and Its Possibilities by Simon Lake (1918)
"The most common shellfish are the oyster, the round or hard-shell clam, the long-neck or soft- shell clam, the scallop, and, on the Pacific coast, ..."

7. Primitive Industry: Or, Illustrations of the Handiwork, in Stone, Bone and by Charles Conrad Abbott, Henry Carvill Lewis (1881)
"These heaps are made up of shells of the oyster, hard-shell clam or quahaug, periwinkles and soft-shell clams, all of which show the effects of exposure to ..."

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