long-neck clam

Questions about long-neck clam

What does long-neck clam mean?

long-neck clam means "a clam that is usually steamed in the shell". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for long-neck clam?

Close synonyms include soft-shell clam, steamer, steamer clam, soft-shell clam, steamer. 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 long-neck clam a common word?

long-neck clam 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.