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BLOOD CLAM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blood clam mean?
• BLOOD CLAM (noun)
The noun BLOOD CLAM has 1 sense:
1. red-blooded clam
Familiarity information: BLOOD CLAM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Red-blooded clam
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("blood clam" is a kind of...):
bivalve; lamellibranch; pelecypod (marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together)
Holonyms ("blood clam" is a member of...):
Arca; genus Arca (type genus of the family Arcidae: ark shells and blood clams)
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