Cockle synonyms

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bivalve
Any of various mollusks of the class Bivalvia, having a shell consisting of two halves hinged together. Clams, oysters, scallops, and mussels are bivalves. The class Bivalvia is also called Pelecypoda, and was formerly called Lamellibranchia.
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mollusk
Any of a large phylum (Mollusca) of invertebrate animals, including the chitons, gastropods, cephalopods, scaphopods, and bivalves characterized by a soft, unsegmented body, typically enclosed wholly or in part in a mantle and a calcareous shell, and usually having gills and a foot
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ripple
The definition of a ripple is a small wave along the surface of water, a gentle rising and fall of sound throughout a group, or a special feeling that goes through you.
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shell
The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
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wrinkle
A small furrow, ridge, or crease on a normally smooth surface, caused by crumpling, folding, or shrinking.
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rumple
To make wrinkled, particularly of fabric.
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crumple
To fall or break down; collapse
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knit
To form (one or more stitches of the basic type)
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ruffle
To pleat or gather (fabric) into a ruffle.
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riffle
To leaf rapidly through (a book, etc.), as by letting the edges or corners of the pages slip lightly across the thumb
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undulate
To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion:
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mussel (related)
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cerastoderma (related)
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mussels (related)
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edule (related)
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shrimp (related)
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fish (related)
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whelk (related)
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Cockle Sentence Examples

  • The common cockle is regularly used as food by the poorer classes.

  • By means of this muscular foot the cockle burrows rapidly in the muddy sand of the sea-shore, and it can also when it is not buried perform considerable leaps by suddenly bending the foot.

  • In other respects the anatomy of the cockle presents no important differences from that of a typical Lamellibranch.

  • The usual size of the cockle in its shell is from I to 2 in.

  • The cockle is liable to the same suspicion as the oyster of conveying the contamination of typhoid fever where the shores are polluted, but as it is boiled before being eaten it is probably less dangerous.

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