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Definition: Giant Clam |
Giant ClamNoun1. Giant clam inhabiting reefs in the South Pacific weighing up to 500' pounds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Giant ClamSynonym: Tridacna gigas (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Giant Clam |
| English words defined with "giant clam": Tridacna gigas. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We'll build a giant clam cannon! (Codename: Kids Next Door; writing credit: Mr. Warburton; Tom Warburton) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Plate 257. The Geoduck or Giant Clam of the Pacific. Glycimeris generosa.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Tridacna Crocea - Giant clam embedded in coral Demonstrating variable zooxanthellae colorization in mantle.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
giant clam | 41 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "giant clam"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Dutch | reuzendoopvontschelp. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Moerdermuschel. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | τριδακνίς η γίγας. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | óriáskagyló. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | tridacna gigante. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iantgay amclay tridacna spp.. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Tridacna gigas. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-i-l-m-n-t" | |
-1 letter: antalgic, calamint, claimant. | |
-2 letters: actinal, agnatic, calming, catling, clamant, magical, malting, matinal, talcing. | |
-3 letters: acting, agamic, agnail, animal, caiman, calami, camail, catlin, lacing, lactam, lamina, laming, lingam, macing, magian, malign, maniac, manila, mantic, mating, taming, tincal. | |
-4 letters: acing, actin, again, alang, alant, algin, align, amain, amiga, amnia, amnic, anima, antic, atman, canal, claim, clang. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-g-i-l-m-n-t" | |
+1 letter: maculating. | |
+2 letters: acclimating, enigmatical. | |
+3 letters: accumulating, calumniating, emasculating, magnetically. | |
+4 letters: acclimatising, acclimatizing, campanologist, enigmatically, galactosamine, galvanometric, gastronomical, gymnastically, matriculating, misallocating, miscataloging, mutagenically, nematological, paleomagnetic, ungrammatical. | |
+5 letters: anagrammatical, campanologists, dogmaticalness, galactosamines, miscalculating, morganatically, nongrammatical, organometallic, undogmatically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 69 61 6E 74 43 6C 61 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101001 01100001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01000011 01101100 01100001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G i a n t   C l a m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0069 0061 006E 0074 0043 006C 0061 006D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4175678086237786779 |
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