mya arenaria

Questions about mya arenaria

What does mya arenaria mean?

mya arenaria means "an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe".

What is another word for mya arenaria?

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

mya arenaria 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.