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Clam vs. Scallop

Clam and Scallop Definitions

Clam

Any of various usually burrowing marine and freshwater bivalve mollusks chiefly of the subclass Heterodonta, including members of the families Veneridae and Myidae, many of which are edible.

Scallop

Any of various marine bivalve mollusks of the family Pectinidae, having fan-shaped shells with a radiating fluted pattern.

Clam

The soft edible body of such a mollusk.

Scallop

The edible adductor muscle of a scallop.

Clam

(Informal) A close-mouthed person, especially one who can keep a secret.

Scallop

A shell of a scallop, or a dish in a similar shape, used for baking and serving seafood.
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Clam

(Slang) A dollar
Owed them 75 clams.

Scallop

One of a series of curved projections forming an ornamental border.

Clam

A clamp or vise.

Scallop

See escalope.

Clam

To hunt for clams.

Scallop

To edge (cloth, for example) with a series of curved projections.
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Clam

A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example pl=s (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams 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.

Scallop

To bake in a casserole with milk or a sauce and often with bread crumbs
Scalloped potatoes.

Clam

Strong pincers or forceps.

Scallop

To cut (meat) into thin boneless slices.

Clam

A kind of vise, usually of wood.

Scallop

To gather scallops for eating or sale.
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Clam

A dollar.
Those sneakers cost me fifty clams!

Scallop

Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the family Pectinidae which are free-swimming.

Clam

A Scientologist.

Scallop

One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.

Clam

A vagina.

Scallop

(cooking) A fillet of meat, escalope.

Clam

(slang) In musicians' parlance, a wrong or misplaced note.

Scallop

(cooking) A form of fried potato.

Clam

(informal) One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.

Scallop

A dish shaped like a scallop shell.

Clam

Mouth (Now found mostly in the expression shut one's clam)

Scallop

To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.

Clam

Clamminess; moisture

Scallop

(transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped

Clam

To dig for clams.

Scallop

(intransitive) To harvest scallops

Clam

To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

Scallop

Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidæ. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobæus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2.

Clam

To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.

Scallop

One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.

Clam

To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.

Scallop

One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell.

Clam

Clammy.

Scallop

To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below.

Clam

A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
You shall scarce find any bay or shallow shore, or cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes, or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure.
Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a cockle; it lieth under the sand.

Scallop

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.)

Clam

Strong pinchers or forceps.

Scallop

Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces

Clam

A kind of vise, usually of wood.

Scallop

Thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled

Clam

Claminess; moisture.

Scallop

Edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions

Clam

A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.

Scallop

Decorate an edge with scallops;
The dress had a scalloped skirt

Clam

To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again.

Scallop

Form scallops in;
Scallop the meat

Clam

To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.

Scallop

Fish for scallops

Clam

To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

Scallop

Shape or cut in scallops;
Scallop the hem of the dress

Clam

Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud

Clam

A piece of paper money worth one dollar

Clam

Flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams

Clam

Gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

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