SOFT-SHELL CLAM

Meaning of SOFT-SHELL CLAM in English

an edible clam, Mya arenaria, inhabiting waters along both coasts of North America, having an oval, relatively thin, whitish shell. Also called long clam, long-neck clam, soft clam, steamer, steamer clam .

[ 1790-1800, Amer. ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

SOFT-SHELL CLAM — noun Date: 1796 an elongated clam ( Mya arenaria ) of the east coast of North America that has a …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SOFT-SHELL CLAM — noun also soft-shelled clam : an elongated clam ( Mya arenaria ) of the east coast of No. America having …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SOFT-SHELL CLAM — Date: 1796 : an elongated clam ( Mya arenaria ) of the east coast of North America that has a …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SOFT-SHELL CLAM — Function: noun Date: 1796 : an elongated clam ( Mya arenaria ) of the east coast of No. America that …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
SOFT-SHELL CLAM — [soft-shell clam] n (1796): an elongated clam (Mya arenaria) of the east coast of No. America that has a thin …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SOFT-SHELL CLAM — см. long clam
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
SOFT-SHELL CLAM — см. long clam
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
CLAM — I In general, any bivalve mollusk . True clams, in the strict sense, have equal shells, closed by two opposing …
Английский словарь Британика
SOFT — I. ˈsȯft also ˈsäft adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English softe, soft, from Old English sōfte, alteration (probably influenced …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SHELL — I. ˈshel noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English schell, shell, from Old English sciell; akin to Old English scealu …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CLAM
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CLAM — (v. t.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the …
Английский словарь Webster
CLAM — ( v. t. ) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SOFT — — softly , adv. — softness , n. /sawft, soft/ , adj., softer, softest , n., adv., interj. adj. 1. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SHELL — — shell-less , adj. — shell-like , adj. /shel/ , n. 1. a hard outer covering of an animal, as …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CLAM — clam 1 — clamlike , adj. — clammer , n. /klam/ , n. , v. , clammed, clamming . n. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SHELL — I. ˈshel noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sciell; akin to Old English scealu shell, Old Norse skel, Lithuanian …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SOFT — superl somewhat weak in intellect. 2. soft ·superl weak in character; impressible. 3. soft ·superl gentle in action or motion; …
Webster English vocab
SHELL — noun a pod. 2. shell ·vi to fall off, as a shell, crust, ·etc. 3. shell ·add. ·noun a gouge …
Webster English vocab
CLAM — noun claminess; moisture. 2. clam ·vt strong pinchers or forceps. 3. clam ·vt a kind of vise, usually of wood. …
Webster English vocab
SOFT — [soft] adj [ME, fr. OE softe, alter. of sefte; akin to OHG semfti soft] (bef. 12c) 1 a: pleasing or …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SHELL — [shell] n [ME, fr. OE sciell; akin to OE scealu shell, ON skel, Lith skelti to split, Gk skallein to …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CLAM — [clam] n [ME, fr. OE clamm bond, fetter; akin to OHG klamma constriction, L glomus ball] (bef. 12c): clamp, clasp …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CLAM — in general, any member of the invertebrate class Bivalviamollusks with a bivalved shell (i.e., one with two separate sections). More …
Britannica English vocabulary
SOFT — soft BrE AmE sɒft sɔːft AmE sɔːft sɑːft ▷ softer ˈsɒft ə ˈsɔːft- AmE ˈsɔːft ə r ˈsɑːft- ▷ softest …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SOFT — / sɒft; NAmE sɔːft/ adjective ( soft·er , soft·est ) NOT HARD 1. changing shape easily when pressed; not stiff …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHELL — / ʃel; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C , U ] the hard outer part of …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CLAM — / klæm; NAmE / ■ noun a shellfish that can be eaten. It has a shell in two parts that …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SOFT — soft S2 W2 /sɒft $ sɒːft/ BrE AmE adjective ( comparative softer , superlative softest ) [ Word Family: noun …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SHELL — I. shell 1 S3 W3 /ʃel/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: sciell ] 1 . …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CLAM — I. clam 1 /klæm/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1500-1600 ; Origin: clam 'two-part fastener' (14-20 centuries) , from …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SOFT — adj., adv., & n. --adj. 1 (of a substance, material, etc.) lacking hardness or firmness; yielding to pressure; easily cut. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SHELL — n. & v. --n. 1 a the hard outer case of many marine molluscs (cockle shell). b the esp. hard …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CLAM — n. & v. --n. 1 any bivalve mollusc, esp. the edible N. American hard or round clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SOFT — adj., adv., & n. adj. 1 (of a substance, material, etc.) lacking hardness or firmness; yielding to pressure; easily cut. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SHELL — n. & v. n. 1 a the hard outer case of many marine molluscs (cockle shell). b the esp. hard …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CLAM — n. & v. n. 1 any bivalve mollusc, esp. the edible n. American hard or round clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SOFT — adj., adv., & n. --adj. 1. (of a substance, material, etc.) lacking hardness or firmness; yielding to pressure; easily cut. …
Oxford English vocab
SHELL — n. & v. --n. 1. a the hard outer case of many marine molluscs (cockle shell). b the esp. hard …
Oxford English vocab
CLAM — n. & v. --n. 1. any bivalve mollusc, esp. the edible N. American hard or round clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) or …
Oxford English vocab
SOFT — ( softer, softest) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Something that is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHELL — ( shells, shelling, shelled) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. The shell …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SHELL — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES shell game ▪ Critics called the proposal a shell game. shell shock shell suit …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CLAM — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE giant ▪ The exact location is being kept secret to avoid poaching, which …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Cambridge English vocab
CLAM — n. heart clam coquina clam razor clam
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
CLAM — n. In general, any bivalve mollusk . True clams, in the strict sense, have equal shells, closed by two opposing …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SOFT — Synonyms and related words : Mickey Mouse, accented, accepting, adoring, affectionate, afraid, alveolar, anemic, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, asthenic, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SHELL — Synonyms and related words : Eustachian tube, L, R, acting area, aim at, alveolation, alveolus, ante up, antrum, anvil, apron, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SOFT — adj. soft on soft boiled soft pedal soft shell soft soap soft spot soft touch
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
SOFT — INDEX: 1. soft and easy to press or crush 2. soft and pleasant to touch 3. soft and wet 4. …
Longman Activator English vocab
SOFT — adj. 25B6; adjective soft fruit : MUSHY, squashy, pulpy, pappy, slushy, squelchy, squishy, doughy; informal gooey; Brit. informal squidgy. soft …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SHELL
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SOFT — adj. 1 yielding, cushiony, plushy, spongy, squeezable, compressible, squashy, squashable, flexible, plastic, pliable, pliant, supple, flexile, flexuous, unstarched This mattress …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
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Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SHELL — 1. сущ. 1) оболочка, корка 2) остов; каркас the shells of burned buildings ≈ остовы обгоревших зданий 3) особые виды …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CLAM
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SOFT
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SHELL — shell.ogg _I 1. ʃel n 1. раковина snail mollusc shell - раковина улитки моллюска 2. 1> скорлупа; шелуха shell egg …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
CLAM — clam.ogg _I 1. klæm n 1. 1> съедобный морской моллюск ( разинька, венерка и т. п. ) 2> ком. , …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SHELL — 1) оболочка 2) остов, каркас 3) кожух; корпус; обшивка 4) слой || отслаиваться 5) оболочковая литейная форма 6) трубная заготовка …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь

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