- 看过 clam 的人也看了 :
- mollusk
- littleneck
- quahog
- cherrystone
clam 的 3 个定义
- any of various bivalve mollusks, especially certain edible species.Compare quahog, soft-shell clam.
- Informal. a secretive or silent person.
- clamminess.
- Slang. a dollar or the sum of a dollar: I only made 60 clams a week.
clammed, clam·ming.
- to gather or dig clams.
- clam up, Slang. to refuse to talk or reply; refrain from talking or divulging information: The teacher asked who had thrown the eraser, but the class clammed up.
clam 近义词
bivalve living in ocean
clam 的近义词 4 个
由clam构成的短语
- clam up
- happy as the day is long (as a clam)
更多clam例句
- Executives from Toshiba and Mitsubishi helped crowd the dining room, which claimed 18-foot ceilings, a robota grill and a glassed-in fish room, a cool pantry for the oysters, clams, live scallops and sea urchins that populated his menus.
- The bite-size morsel inside the shell is succulent and tender — no rubber-band chewiness like with a clam.
- In sandy tidewater areas, people wade along and feel clams on the bottom with their feet, then scoop them up and stow them in a mesh bag tied to their waist or suspended in a small floating tube.
- Most coastal states list where clams and mussels can be safely harvested, and those areas are subject to change.
- Akin to San Francisco’s signature cioppino, it’s an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to seafood, with squidi, shrimp, clams, mussels and fish all thrown together into one delicious dish.
- You see this a lot when individuals who are accused of something decide to clam up, often under the advice of their attorney.
- Back in California, Zach finds that people from whom he might learn about the bombing either die, disappear, or clam up.
- All of which makes me wonder why Lindsey Graham and his cohort were so afraid the guy would clam up.
- Then I thought the non-celebrities would clam up because the cameras would make them nervous.
- “The Clam Castle was crowded with taxpayers,” Pete says in typical fashion.
- The recovery of the oyster, clam and other edible shell-fish is also a feature of the work which the Lake Company has in view.
- Its shores were long stretches of mud-flats, corrugated everywhere with thousands of clam-holes.
- Then I saw that the two halves of the clam-shell bucket were slightly open, just wide enough to let me squeeze in.
- Down fell that pretty innocent, as falls a snow-white lamb; Her hair drooped round her pallid cheeks, like sea-weed on a clam.
- "It's your kind of clam chowder, too," said Mrs. Hills, shaking her head.