I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
giant
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The exact location is being kept secret to avoid poaching, which almost drove the giant clam to extinction 20 years ago.
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I find three more specimens of the giant clam , and the following day, two.
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In particular, both corals and giant clams harbour unicellular algae which live within their body cells.
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There is no recorded example of a giant clam causing a human death.
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And champion of them all, whether on land or in the sea, is almost certainly the giant clam .
■ NOUN
chowder
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Shrug, and serve some more clam chowder .
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There was cheese soup and a brat, or clam chowder and baked stuffed lobster, or gumbo and chicken jambalaya.
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They make it look like a ship with waiters like pirates singing shanties into your clam chowder .
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The tuna tartare with chopped avocado, the clam chowder with smoked bacon and the giant Louisiana prawns were all a hit.
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The tastiest way to warm up is with a bowl of Boston's traditional clam chowder with oyster crackers.
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From the salad to the clam chowder to the pasta with grilled peppers and chicken, dinner was perfect.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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This shirt cost me fifty clams.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In particular, both corals and giant clams harbour unicellular algae which live within their body cells.
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In your next life, I hope you are a sea clam .
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She wrapped herself around him like a clam in formation, her body one big muscle, straining.
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Stir the clams into the sauce and heat for a further 1-2min until piping hot. 4.
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Supposedly you can be arrested and fined for taking any mussels or clams at all.
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The clams were mostly oil-drenched bread crumbs with a morsel of chopped clam buried at the bottom of the shell.
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Thousands of fertilized sea urchin eggs, starfish and blue clams returned to Earth with the astronauts.
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Vinegar on a clam , that.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both Noland and Hull showed the good taste to clam up while the Symington trial is still under way.
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But he clammed up right after that.
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He'd noted that Howard had clammed up as the new arrival appeared.
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No wonder he clammed up whenever I asked him about his childhood.
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Normally she would have clammed up at that juncture.
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We had gone over his script over and over and he knew it cold, but he almost clammed up.