PIDDOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does piddock mean? 

• PIDDOCK (noun)
  The noun PIDDOCK has 1 sense:

1. marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells

  Familiarity information: PIDDOCK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIDDOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("piddock" 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 ("piddock" is a member of...):

genus Pholas; Pholas (type genus of the family Pholadidae: piddocks)