quahog

Quahog is a rich world full of despicable, immoral, and implausibly selfish characters.
‘Family Guy’ Killed Off Brian Last Night. It Was the Right Move.|Kevin Fallon|November 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The former (Venus mercenaria) was called by the Indians "quahog," and is still so called in the Eastern states.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
The 'neck' is a foot, and it's little because the quahog doesn't burrow deep.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries|Francis Rolt-Wheeler
The quahog is a thick-shelled, roundish mollusk with a distinctly heart-shaped outline when looked at endwise.
Zoology: The Science of Animal Life|Ernest Ingersoll

D'you know what answer the little boy got that asked the quahog the time o' day?
Sheila of Big Wreck Cove|James A. Cooper
It is to this family that the quahog or hard clam of our markets belongs.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural History|Theodore Wood

British Dictionary definitions for quahog

quahog

/ (ˈkoʊˌhɒɡ) /

noun

an edible clam, Venus (or Mercenaria) mercenaria, native to the Atlantic coast of North America, having a large heavy rounded shellAlso called: hard-shell clam, hard-shell, round clam Compare soft-shell clam

Word Origin for quahog

C18: from Narraganset, short for poquauhock, from pohkeni dark + hogki shell

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