моллюск — meaning in English

English meaning

• clam noun An edible shellfish with two hinged shells, found buried in sand or mud.
• shellfish noun An aquatic animal with a shell, such as a crab, mussel, or oyster, especially one eaten as food.

Senses

моллюск is used for these senses in English:

• mollusc A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces.
• shellfish A culinary and nutritional term for several groups of non-piscine, non-tetrapod, aquatic animals that are used as a food source. The term often exclusively refers to edible aquatic crustaceans, bivalve mollusks and cephalopod mollusks; but sometimes echinoderms may be included as well.

clam — full definition

1. noun An edible shellfish with two hinged shells, found buried in sand or mud.
2. noun Informal: a dollar.
3. verb To go silent or refuse to speak, especially used as "clam up."

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