Clam vs. Scallop

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.

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

The soft edible body of such a mollusk.

The edible adductor muscle of a scallop.

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

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

(Slang) A dollar

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

A clamp or vise.

See escalope.

To hunt for clams.

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

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.

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

Strong pincers or forceps.

To cut (meat) into thin boneless slices.

A kind of vise, usually of wood.

To gather scallops for eating or sale.

A dollar.

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

A Scientologist.

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

A vagina.

(cooking) A fillet of meat, escalope.

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

(cooking) A form of fried potato.

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

A dish shaped like a scallop shell.

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

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

Clamminess; moisture

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

To dig for clams.

(intransitive) To harvest scallops

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

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.

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

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

To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.

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

Clammy.

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

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.

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.)

Strong pinchers or forceps.

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

A kind of vise, usually of wood.

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

Claminess; moisture.

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

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

Decorate an edge with scallops;

To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.

Form scallops in;

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

Fish for scallops

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

Shape or cut in scallops;

Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud

A piece of paper money worth one dollar

Flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams

Gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean