单词 | wampum clam |
释义 | > as lemmaswampum clam wampum clam n. now rare the quahog or hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, the shell of which was used to make wampum (see sense 1a). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Veneridae > shell of wampum clam1786 Montagu's Venus1819 1778 E. M. da Costa Hist. Nat. Testaceorum Brit. 184/1 Mr. Pennant has also followed this Linnean error, by proposing the North-American clam or wampum shell as the same species with this [sc. Pectunculus crassus].] 1786 Catal. Portland Mus. (Skinner & Co.) 59 A Venus mercenaria, L. or wampum clam, of which kind of shell the beads in the [wampum] belt are made. 1884 G. B. Goode in Fisheries Exhib. Lit. V. 45 There are two important kinds of Clams—the Long Clam, or ‘Maninose’, Mya arenaria, and the Quahaug, or Round Clam, sometimes called the Wampum Clam, Venus mercenaria. 1994 E. B. Kavasch EarthMaker's Lodge v. 139 Original wampum was handmade from the core of conch and whelk shells, and especially from the quahog (or wampum) clam, found only in Atlantic coastal waters. < as lemmas |
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