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Geoduck

Definition: Geoduck

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the Pacific coast of North America; weighs up to six pounds; has siphons that can extend to several feet and cannot be withdrawn into the shell.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Geoduck \Ge"o*duck\, noun. [American Indian name.]. (Websters 1913)

Commercial Usage: Geoduck

DomainTitle

Books

  • Field Guide to the Geoduck (Sasquatch Field Guide Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Geoduck

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Plate 257. The Geoduck or Giant Clam of the Pacific. Glycimeris generosa.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Geoduck

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  geoduck

63

  clam geoduck

10

  geoduck recipe

9

  geoduck picture

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Geoduck

Derivations

Words beginning with "geoduck": geoducks. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Geoduck"

Words rhyming with "geoduck" (pronounced 'Ge"o*duck'): Beduck, Decoy-duck, Earlduck, Haiduck, Raven's-duck, Squamduck. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Geoduck

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-k-o-u"

-2 letters: coked, coude, douce, gecko.

-3 letters: code, coed, coke, cued, cuke, deck, deco, dock, doge, duce, duck, duke, geck, guck, gude, kudo.

-4 letters: cod, cog, cud, cue, doc, doe, dog, due, dug, duo, ecu, ego, ged, god, keg, kue, ode, oke, oud, udo, uke.

-5 letters: de, do, ed, go, od, oe.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-g-k-o-u"
 

+1 letter: geoducks.

 

+5 letters: backgrounded, backgrounder.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Geoduck


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 65 6F 64 75 63 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .    ---    -..    ..-    -.-.    -.-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100101 01101111 01100100 01110101 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#111 &#100 &#117 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 006F 0064 0075 0063 006B

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41718170876977

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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