clam

1. 1.

   burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness

   Broaderbivalve

   Narrowersoft-shell clamquahoggeoduckrazor clamgiant clamshipworm
2. 2.

   a piece of paper money worth one dollar

   Synonymsdollardollar billone dollar billbuck

   Broaderbill

   United States

3. 3.

   flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams

   Broadershellfish

   Narrowerquahaugsoft-shell clam

1. 1.

   gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

   Broadergather

Other forms of clam

plural

clams·

past tense or participle

clammed

present participle

clamming

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about clam

What does clam mean?

clam means "burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clam?

clam has 1 syllable: clam. In IPA it is /ˈklæm/.

What is another word for clam?

Close synonyms include dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck. 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 clam a common word?

clam is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.