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say it: KWAH-hawg
quahog is a noun meaning "Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes". It carries 2 recorded senses.
Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes
an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for quahog come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.