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Definition of Quahaug

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.

Definition of Quahaug

1. Noun. An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America. (scientific name ''Venus mercenaria'') ¹

2. Noun. Large clams used in chowders and other clam dishes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Quahaug

1. quahog [n -S] - See also: quahog

Medical Definition of Quahaug

1. An American market clam (Venus mercenaria). It is sold in large quantities, and is highly valued as food. Called also round clam, and hard clam. The name is also applied to other allied species, as Venus Mortoni of the Gulf of Mexico. Origin: Abbrev. Fr. Narragansett Indian poquauhock. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quahaug

quaggas quaggier quaggiest quaggles quaggy quagha quaghas quaghog quagmire quagmired

quagmires quagmirier quagmiriest quagmiry quags quahaug (current term) quahaugs quahog quahogged quahogger

quahoggers quahogging quahogs quai quaich quaiches quaichs quaigh quaighs quail

Literary usage of Quahaug

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

1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"quahaug. The round clam, Venus mercenaria. 1643 Roger Williams mentions the ... quahaug.—Scribner'a Mag., xxii. 656. (NED) Quail. A girl student. ..."

2. ... A Report Upon the Mollusk Fisheries of Massachusetts by David Lawrence Belding (1909)
"Although the quahaug industry has not openly shown the tendency to decline that the soft clam has manifested in southern Massachusetts, the danger is ..."

3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"quahaug. See CLAM. (jl All,, the common name of several genera of the partridge division of gallinaceous birds. The American quails constitute the subfamily ..."

4. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1846)
"The quahaug (venus mercenaria) called by R. Williams the ... The quahaug is not much inférieur in relish to the oyster, ..."

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