Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A very large, edible clam (Panope generosa) of the Pacific coast of northwest North America.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as goeduck.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology A species of large saltwater clam, native to the North American Pacific Northwest, Washington to Alaska, known as Panopea abrupta or Panope generosa, in the family Hiatellidae.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A gigantic clam (Glycimeris generosa) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a large edible clam found burrowing deeply in sandy mud along the Pacific coast of North America; weighs up to six pounds; has siphons that can extend to several feet and cannot be withdrawn into the shell
Etymologies
- From Lushootseed gʷídəq ("dig deep"). (Wiktionary)
- From Puget Salish gwídəq. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The challenge: create surf and turf from an exotic list of ingredients, things like rattlesnake, black chicken, something frightening called geoduck, etc.”
“Another such word is geoduck, which is pronounced "gooey duck"; a less violently dissonant, but still unpredictable, spelling is distelfink, which according to Merriam-Webster's is pronounced DISH-tlfink it's from Pennsylvania Dutch dischdelfink 'goldfinch', although the AHD gives the normalized DIST-lfink.”
“I myself have never had a geoduck which is slightly embarassing in my field but I can admit it cheers -”
“People have already beaten me to "geoduck" on the last picture, so I'm going to have to go with tube worm.”
“Because according to "Dr. Long," the geoduck was considered to be an aphrodisiac in Asia, and people were eating the mollusk into extinction.”
“His Taylor Shellfish Farms raises a half-dozen varieties of oysters, plus clams, mussels and even giant geoduck clams two feet long that it sends to China and Japan.”
The Wall Street Journal: Oysterman Fought for Puget Sound, Reaped Its Bounty
“It makes much more sense to use that seafood which is local – which for Seattle, includes geoduck.”
“A Feb. 3 front-page article about a boom in geoduck exports to Asia incorrectly said that the Suquamish reservation is on the island.”
“In the late 1980s, prosecutors spent nearly two years building a case against a geoduck-clam smuggling operation that resulted, Mr. Welch says, in "the largest white-collar fraud case in Northwest history.”
“When the lawmen finally take him down, the evidence indicates that he has illegally harvested 200,000 pounds of geoduck clams.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘geoduck’.
-
Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
photochrom, fufluns, thank you, cool l..., postcard, picture postcard, cricket, physiological ill..., Gakuryū Ishii, ametropia, One Froggy Evening, rhodopsin, Santiago Calatrava and 636 more...
-
Duck!
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, or quacks like a duck, then you should probably list it here.
duck, Duck, turducken, duckling, duck tape, Mallard, rubber duckie, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, lame duck, ducky, ducks and 95 more...
-
molluscs
very comprehensive list
of molluscs,who does not like
calamari? hmm yum
molluscigerous
100,000 species just in molluscsabalone, ammonite, argonaut, ataata, belon, bivalve, blackhead, bluepoint, brachiopod, buckie, byssal, byssus and 271 more...
-
From the Algonquin et al.
Words derived from the innumerable languages of native Americans and the First Nations of Canada. I want to shine some light on this underexposed etymological background to so many common (and som...
raccoon, persimmon, mummichog, caucus, bayou, caribou, geoduck, chipmunk, skunk, opossum, moose, squash and 84 more...
-
Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
-
Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
-
Mollusks
"Snaily, clammy, squidy" has evolved into a vehicle for linking to mollusk quotations, so I've started this list for vernacular names of mollusks.
clam, snail, slug, squid, octopus, nautilus, conch, chank, whelk, mussel, oyster, scallop and 221 more...
-
Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
-
Snaily, clammy, squidy
The list is mainly a vehicle to give some quotations about mollusks, so check the comments.
oyster, snail, nacre, clam, paua, slug, limpet, shell, scallop, whelk, winkle, conchology and 26 more...
-
foodie list
pan, gourmet, mincing, clam, oyster, geoduck, scallop, meringue, baste, garam masala, rarebit, phyllo and 66 more...
-
freerice words to learn
because the website is just that awesome.
allocution, embolism, napery, hemidemisemiquaver, bestir, moppet, ampoule, pullet, praenomen, philately, hauberk, ratiocination and 40 more...
-
fissionchips's Words
solipsism, milquetoast, defenestrate, picayune, geoduck, logorrhea, piquancy, quixotry, feculent, gnomic, parsimonious, panglossian and 25 more...
-
at the zoo - the aquarium
conch, sockeye, marlin, flounder, mollusk, smelt, porpoise, carp, anemone, bass, cetacean, cuttlefish and 18 more...
-
soybomb's Words
polio, intrinsic, street cred, polonium, bilateral symmetry, pompidou, geoduck, wiki, trappist
-
Reed's list
Words I love for one reason or another (or another).
Tweets
Looking for tweets for geoduck.
Greendragon A large featherless uni-ped. Flightless, they live underground. Mar 17, 2012
plethora Yikes, that is a scary looking critter. Almost nightmare fuel.
Where is the scifi horror movie featuring geoducks? They'd barely even need to be mutated. May 27, 2010
ephraim99 The pronunciation makes this word interesting. To look at the word, one would think it meant "earth duck" or maybe "rock duck", but it's a clam pronounced, as madmouth noted, gooeyduck. The only case I know of where 'eo' is pronounced 'oo-ee'. May 27, 2010
madmouth Apparently it is pronounced, 'gooeyduck'. This really lends an additional note of horror to this frightening clam-like object. Apr 13, 2009
mollusque They were fourteen years old; geoducks were important. It was summer and little else really mattered.
--David Guterson, 1994, Snow Falling on Cedars Nov 9, 2007