piddock

How To Use piddock In A Sentence

• The White piddock has mostly been described as smaller than the American one, but at the Belgian coast, opposite results have been found.
• The piddock has a thin, brittle shell that is similar in shape and sculpturing on both sides.
• In SE Asia piddocks may be boiled and eaten with sauce and rice, or sautéed with shallots, or made into a curry.
• This member of the Piddock family lives intertidally in mud and peat banks.
• Some boring shellfish bore with chemistry, but the American piddock is a mechanical borer – repetitively grinding its shell with a rotating movement backward and forward to create a burrow for itself in softer substrates in the shallows of the intertidal zones.