cardium edule

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   common edible European cockle

   Synonymsedible cockle

   Broadercockle

   Partscockle

Questions about cardium edule

What does cardium edule mean?

cardium edule means "common edible European cockle".

What is another word for cardium edule?

Close synonyms include edible cockle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cardium edule a common word?

cardium edule is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.