Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The specific name of the quahog, or hard-shell clam, adopted to some extent as a book-name.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The
quahog .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a genus of Veneridae
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Examples
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I picked up some clam shells (Mercenaria mercenaria), and we headed back to Narragansett.
Howard Hughes Battles the Pink Robots (Part 6b) greygirlbeast 2008
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Maybe I could become one if biologists reclassify Mercenaria mercenaria, but until they do, best I can call myself is a clamitarian.
Archive 2008-09-01 doyle 2008
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Maybe I could become one if biologists reclassify Mercenaria mercenaria, but until they do, best I can call myself is a clamitarian.
Wild clams doyle 2008
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It is true that the greater number of these fossils (all belonging to species now living on the coast) were broken into angular fragments, not excepting even the thick tests of the Venus mercenaria ...
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885
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_Venus mercenaria_ or _Cyprina islandica_, the savoriness of the chowder was not likely to be seriously affected.
The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877
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(_Venus mercenaria_, -- what a profanely ill-sorted name, even for a bivalve!) but the larger and coarser _Cyprina islandica_.
The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877
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It is true that the greater number of these fossils (all belonging to species now living on the coast) were broken into angular fragments, not excepting even the thick tests of the Venus mercenaria ...
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840
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Mercenaria mercenaria and it then drowned while caught.
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Mercenaria mercenaria (hard shelled clam) in South Carolina, in 1939.
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Venus mercenaria [this scene is reconstructed at the very top of the article].
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