Terminology record for clam
RECORD
| Record No.: | 199/en/367 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 2022-11-28 00:00:00 |
| 🇫🇷 FRENCH | ||||||||||
| DOMAINE |
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| VEDETTE | * Palourde statut : recommandé
* Clovisse (nom féminin) statut : admis | |||||||||
| PARTIE DU DISCOURS | nom féminin | |||||||||
| ÉTYMOLOGIE | Palourde | |||||||||
| SOURCE DE L'ETYMOLOGIE |
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). Grand Robert de la langue française, en 6 volumes version 2.0 (2005). | |||||||||
| DÉFINITION |
Mollusque bivalve comestible, du genre Venerupis, sous-genre Tapes (les praires appartiennent au genre Venus) vivant dans le sable. | |||||||||
| PLURIEL | Palourdes ; | |||||||||
| SOURCE DE DÉFINITION | Fishterm | |||||||||
| 🇬🇧 ENGLISH | ||||||||||
| SUBJECT FIELD |
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| TERM | * Clam status: recommended
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| PART OF SPEECH | noun | |||||||||
| PLURAL | Clams ; | |||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY | Early 16th cent.: apparently from earlier clam ‘a clamp’, from Old English clam, clamm ‘a bond or bondage’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch klemme, German Klemme, also to clamp. | |||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). | |||||||||
| DEFINITION |
marine bivalve shellfish (aquatique molluscs) that usually live buried in the seabed or in sand, whose soft meat can be eaten raw or cooked. | |||||||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
Lockwood, S. J. (2001) Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). | |||||||||
