clam chowder

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   chowder containing clams

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Questions about clam chowder

What does clam chowder mean?

clam chowder means "chowder containing clams".

Is clam chowder a common word?

clam chowder 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.