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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Either of the halves of a shell of a bivalve, such as an oyster.

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  • adjective rare, colloquial, especially with "on the" Inexpensive; not overpriced.
  • noun physics, figuratively Any half of a roughly spherical-like object; any dome-shaped object.
  • noun of food, especially with "on the" Either half of a clamshell especially when used to serve individual portions of spiced, minced, breaded, baked clams.

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