How to pronounce“clam”in English
nounLike, since 2022, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community has gotten support from the BIA to revive their traditional practice of clam gardening.
Clam gardens have been maintained for centuries by the Swinomish.
The gardens are filled with minerals that help clams build shells, which in turn creates a more stable tidal ecosystem and offers protection from things like sea level rise and ocean acidification.
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Definitions of “clam”
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams or hen clams (Spisula solidissima), and other species, possibly originally applied to clams of species Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
“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.”
A type of strong pincers or forceps.
To dig for clams.
Clammy.
“Ice is said to be clam, when beginning to melt with the sun or otherwise, and not easy to be slid upon.”
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