A large clam inhabiting reefs in the southern Pacific and weighing up to 500 pounds.
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Examples for "giant clam"
Examples for "giant clam"
1I estimated the weight of this giant clam at 300 kilograms.
2Our visit to this opulent giant clam came to an end.
3By leaving the pearl buried beneath the giant clam's mantle, he allowed it to grow imperceptibly.
4The sky opens like a giant clam, the light soft and pink, although the air is still night-bitten cold.
5LIKE A giant clam shell lying on a sandy beach, Nasa presents a memorable photograph of the Victoria crater.
1Of shells there was not a great variety; a chama ( Tridacna gigas, Lam.)
Translations for Tridacna gigas