quahaug

1. 1.

   Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes

   Synonymsquahoghard-shell clamround clam

   Broaderclam

   Narrowerlittleneckcherrystone

   Part ofquahog
2. 2.

   an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians

   Synonymsquahoghard-shell clamhard clamround clamVenus mercenariaMercenaria mercenaria

   Broaderclam

   Narrowerlittleneckcherrystone

   Part ofVenus

Other forms of quahaug

plural

quahaugs·

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 quahaug

What does quahaug mean?

quahaug means "Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quahaug?

quahaug has 3 syllables: qua-ha-ug. The stress falls on "qua".

What is another word for quahaug?

Close synonyms include quahog, hard-shell clam, round clam, quahog, hard-shell 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 quahaug a common word?

quahaug is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.