Asiatic clam

noun

: asian clam

Appeared in the Potomac in the 1980s. Now some sections of the river near Washington have 1,000 Asiatic clams per square meter.

—Washington Post, 29 May 2005

Word History

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above

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