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Definition of Clamlike
1. resembling a clam [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clamlike
Literary usage of Clamlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paint Researches and Their Practical Application by Henry Alfred Gardner (1917)
"The word "barnacle" is the popular name for that form of marine Crustacea of the
order Cirripedia. which consists of a clamlike body lodged in a shell that ..."
2. Travels in the Great Western Prairies: The Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and by Thomas Jefferson Farnham (1843)
"... gormandizing, unthinking, gilded, clamlike life, that is beginning to me-sure
mental and moral worth by the amount of wealth possessed, ..."
3. Guidebook of the Western United States by Joseph Silas Diller (1916)
"Along the beaches of the present day live clamlike mollusks (Pholas) which by
turning round and round and using their shells as a sort of auger, ..."
4. Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar by Marshall Brown (1899)
"... neither affirm nor deny, any newspaper article to the effect that he was going
to buy the Nickel Plate, and, after this clamlike silence had continued ..."
5. What is Education? by Ernest Carroll Moore (1915)
"They prefer to sit clamlike and noncommittal, to receive and not to give.
Yet every one of them, when he first came to school, was as eagerly expressive as ..."
6. The Garden of Asia: Impressions from Japan by Reginald John Farrer (1904)
"Every size, shape, and colour of shell are there, from huge clamlike things to
tiny cowries of pink, lilac or grey, strung upon long chains, ..."
7. A Book about Myself by Theodore Dreiser (1922)
"wondering if a country newspaper might not offer an escape from the humdrum and
clamlike existence into which I seemed to have fallen. ..."
8. A Text-book in General Zoölogy by Glenn Washington Herrick (1907)
"... the bivalved appearance, by which the barnacles resemble clamlike mollusks.
The acorn barnacles have no stalk and resemble low, blunt pyramids in form. ..."
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