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Quahaug

noun

Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes. Synonyms: hard-shell clam, quahog, round clam.

An edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians. Synonyms: hard-shell clam, hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, quahog, round clam, Venus mercenaria.

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"Quahaug" Quotes from Famous Books

... plump dark bodies, leaving the shells in heaps upon the sand. The collectors of these molluscan dainties knew them as quahaugs, and esteemed them accordingly; but my companion, a connoisseur in such matters, pronounced them not the true quahaug (Venus mercenaria,—what a profanely ill-sorted name, even for a bivalve!) but the larger and coarser Cyprina islandica. The man to whom we imparted this precious bit of esoteric lore received it like ...

— The Foot-path Way • Bradford Torrey

... for dinner—a New England clam chowder, made with milk and crackers, and clams with shells as white as snow. They were what the New Yorker calls "soft-shell" clams, for a Fulton Market chowder is a "quahaug soup" to the native of ...

— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Words linked to "Quahaug" : littleneck, littleneck clam, Venus, genus Venus, cherrystone clam, cherrystone, clam