| 单词 | cockle |
| 释义 | cock·le 1 (kŏkəl)n. 1. Any of various chiefly marine bivalve mollusks of the family Cardiidae, having rounded or heart-shaped shells with radiating ribs. 2. The shell of a cockle. 3. A wrinkle; a pucker. 4. Nautical A cockleshell. intr. & tr.v. cock·led, cock·ling, cock·les Idiom: To become or cause to become wrinkled or puckered. cockles of (one's) heart One's innermost feelings: The valentine warmed the cockles of my heart. [Middle English cokel, from Old French coquille, shell, from Vulgar Latin *cochillia, from Latin conchyllium, from Greek konkhulion, diminutive of konkhē, mussel.] cockle1rough cockle Acanthocardia tuberculata |
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