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