tridacna gigas

1. 1.

   a large clam inhabiting reefs in the southern Pacific and weighing up to 500 pounds

   Synonymsgiant clam

   Broaderclam

   Part ofTridacna

Questions about tridacna gigas

What does tridacna gigas mean?

tridacna gigas means "a large clam inhabiting reefs in the southern Pacific and weighing up to 500 pounds".

What is another word for tridacna gigas?

Close synonyms include giant 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 tridacna gigas a common word?

tridacna gigas 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.