donax

noun

do·​nax

ˈdōˌnaks

1

capitalized : a genus of small marine bivalve mollusks that is the type of the family Donacidae and that includes forms having long separate siphons, a well-developed foot, and an equivalve somewhat triangular shell

2

plural -es : coquina sense 1

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin, a shellfish, from Greek

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