Clam vs Starfish - What's the difference?
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A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (, a huge East Indian bivalve.
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A kind of vise, usually of wood.
(US, slang) A dollar (usually used in the plural). Possibly originating from the term wampum.
(slang, derogatory) A Scientologist.
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To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
clamminess; moisture
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To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
* L'Estrange
Any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
(vulgar, slang, usually in translations of Japanese pornography) an anus. See also chocolate starfish.
(obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
* 1755 , , trans. Isaac Kimbler, Explanation of the Plate of Uncommon Star Fish, Extracted from the Natural History of Norway
As nouns the difference between clam and starfish
is that clam is a bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (species: Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (species: Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the species: Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve while starfish is any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.As a verb clam
is to dig for clams.clam
English
(wikipedia clam)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams' thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. ' Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
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Verb
(clamm)Derived terms
* American jackknife clam * Atlantic jackknife clam * bamboo clam * clam chowder * clamshell * clam up * giant clam * piss clam * razor clamSee also
* clammyEtymology 2
Verb
(clamm)- (Nares)
Etymology 3
Noun
- The clam of death.
Verb
(clamm)- (Dryden)
- A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed themselves till there was no getting out again.
Anagrams
* ----starfish
English
(wikipedia starfish)Noun
(en-noun)- But the largest of the star-fish' kind is that sea monster called kruken, kraken or krabben. [...] As this enormous sea-animal in all probability may be reckoned of the polype, or of the ' star-fish , kind, it seems that the parts which are seen rising at its pleasure, and are called arms, are properly the tentacula, or feeding instruments, called horns as well as arms.