Synonyms for quahog
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kwaw-hawg, -hog, kwoh-, koh-, kwuh-hawg, -hog |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkwɔ hɔg, -hɒg, kwoʊ-, ˈkoʊ-, kwəˈhɔg, -ˈhɒg |
Définition of quahog
Origin :- 1753 (quogue; Roger Williams had it as poquauhock, 1643), from an Algonquian language, perhaps Narragansett poquauhock or Pequot p'quaghhaug "hard clam."
- As in clam : noun bivalve living in ocean
- The 'neck' is a foot, and it's little because the quahog doesn't burrow deep.
- Extract from : « The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
- It is to this family that the quahog or hard clam of our markets belongs.
- Extract from : « The Animal World, A Book of Natural History » by Theodore Wood
- Quahog, kwa-hog′, n. the common round clam of the North American Atlantic coast.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various
- The quahog is a thick-shelled, roundish mollusk with a distinctly heart-shaped outline when looked at endwise.
- Extract from : « Zoology: The Science of Animal Life » by Ernest Ingersoll
- The former (Venus mercenaria) was called by the Indians "quahog," and is still so called in the Eastern states.
- Extract from : « A Civic Biology » by George William Hunter
- D'you know what answer the little boy got that asked the quahog the time o' day?
- Extract from : « Sheila of Big Wreck Cove » by James A. Cooper
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