A large clam inhabiting reefs in the southern Pacific and weighing up to 500 pounds.
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Examples for "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.)
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