geoduck

NOUN
  1. a large edible clam found burrowing deeply in sandy mud along the Pacific coast of North America; weighs up to six pounds; has siphons that can extend to several feet and cannot be withdrawn into the shell
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How To Use geoduck In A Sentence

  • A Feb. 3 front-page article about a boom in geoduck exports to Asia incorrectly said that the Suquamish reservation is on the island. Corrections
  • Efforts were made in the 19th century to establish geoducks on the Atlantic coast, but they failed.
  • I myself have never had a geoduck which is slightly embarassing in my field but I can admit it cheers - Think Progress » CBS Allows Focus On The Family Advocacy Ad During Super Bowl, But Bans Gay Dating Site Ad
  • When the lawmen finally take him down, the evidence indicates that he has illegally harvested 200,000 pounds of geoduck clams. When Criminals Clam Up
  • People have already beaten me to "geoduck" on the last picture, so I'm going to have to go with tube worm. When Wreckerators Take the Fall
  • And the prized geoduck - the largest burrowing clam in the world - is occasionally found among the gaper clams in Tomales Bay.
  • As well, individual quotas have been introduced in certain pacific fisheries (e.g., for abalone, herring, geoduck, sablefish and halibut), and in freshwater fisheries.
  • Ecotrust studied the implementation of and fallout from what was considered to be a progressive IFQ-based management system in Canada's West Coast geoduck, halibut, sablefish, groundfish trawl and shellfish fisheries.
  • Common and widely available clam varieties from the Pacific Coast include geoducks, littlenecks, and Manila clams.
  • Another such word is geoduck, which is pronounced "gooey duck"; a less violently dissonant, but still unpredictable, spelling is distelfink, which according to Merriam-Webster's is pronounced DISH-tlfink it's from Pennsylvania Dutch dischdelfink 'goldfinch', although the AHD gives the normalized DIST-lfink. Languagehat.com: ENGLISH SPELLING.
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