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1Clam shrimp — Temporal range: Devonian–Recent …
2Clam — For other uses, see Clam (disambiguation). Clam Edible clams in the family Veneridae Scientific classification Kingdom …
3clam up — verb refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent The children shut up when their father approached • Syn: ↑close up, ↑dummy up, ↑shut up, ↑belt up, ↑button up, ↑be quiet, ↑keep mum …
4close — close1 W1S1 [kləuz US klouz] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(shut)¦ 2¦(move parts together)¦ 3¦(shut for period of time)¦ 4¦(stop operating)¦ 5¦(end)¦ 6 close an account 7¦(in money markets)¦ 8 close a deal/sale/contract etc 9¦(offer finishes)¦ …
5close up — I verb 1. refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent The children shut up when their father approached • Syn: ↑clam up, ↑dummy up, ↑shut up, ↑belt up, ↑button up, ↑be quiet, ↑ …
6clam — 1 noun (C) 1 a shellfish that you can eat, which has a shell in two parts that open and close 2 AmE informal someone who does not say what they are thinking or feeling 3 as happy as a clam AmE informal very happy 2 verb clam up phrasal verb (I)… …
7clam — [OE] Old English clam meant ‘something for tying up or fastening, fetter’; it can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic base *klam , which also produced clamp [14] and is related to climb. There is a gap in the word’s history in early Middle… …
8clam — [OE] Old English clam meant ‘something for tying up or fastening, fetter’; it can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic base *klam , which also produced clamp [14] and is related to climb. There is a gap in the word’s history in early Middle… …
9Hard clam — Quahog redirects here. For other uses, see Quahog (disambiguation). Hard clam or Quahog Scientific classification Kingdom …
10Giant clam — In Japanese cuisine, Geoduck (mirugai) is sometimes referred to as giant clam . Taxobox name = Giant clam status = VU status system = iucn2.3 image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Mollusca classis = Bivalvia ordo = Veneroida familia =… …
