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razor-shell

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noun

  1. US name: razor clam.  any of various sand-burrowing bivalve molluscs of the genera Ensis and Solen , which have a long tubular shell

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It was the first time he had seen an ocean, or a razor-shell clam or an undertow or a beach littered with bottles, fruit crates, oil dregs, clinkers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here is a razor-shell; perhaps the gentleman like that.

From Nautilus by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

Mussels, razor-shell clams and maninoses added to the edible supplies.

From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Gooch, Thelma

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