Clam vs. Scallop
Difference Between Clam and Scallop
Clamnoun
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
Scallopnoun
Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the family Pectinidae which are free-swimming.
Clamnoun
Strong pincers or forceps.
Scallopnoun
One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell.
Clamnoun
A kind of vise, usually of wood.
Scallopnoun
A fillet of meat, escalope.
Clamnoun
A dollar (usually used in the plural).
Those sneakers cost me fifty clams!Scallopnoun
A form of fried potato.
Clamnoun
A Scientologist.
Scallopnoun
A dish shaped like a scallop shell.
Clamnoun
(slang) A vagina.
Scallopverb
To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
Clamnoun
(informal) One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.
Scallopverb
(transitive) To make or cook scallops
Clamnoun
clamminess; moisture
Scallopverb
(transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
Clamverb
To dig for clams.
Scallopverb
(intransitive) To harvest scallops
Clamverb
To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
Scallopnoun
one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
Clamverb
To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
Scallopnoun
edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
Clamverb
To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
Scallopnoun
thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
Clamadjective
clammy.
Scallopnoun
edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
Clamnoun
burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud
Scallopverb
decorate an edge with scallops;
the dress had a scalloped skirtClamnoun
a piece of paper money worth one dollar
Scallopverb
form scallops in;
scallop the meatClamnoun
flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
Scallopverb
fish for scallops
Clamverb
gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
Scallopverb
shape or cut in scallops;
scallop the hem of the dress
