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razor-shell

noun

  1. any of various sand-burrowing bivalve molluscs of the genera Ensis and Solen , which have a long tubular shell US namerazor clam
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Created by the three-star chef Pierre Gagnaire, whose namesake restaurant is located on a nearby side street, and executed by chef Jean-Yves Leuranguer, the new dishes are light and playful, and include a terrine of crab and razor-shell clams with grated cauliflower and cucumber-seaweed aspic; and a witty riff on deviled eggs, with sliced avocado, tuna belly, lime zest and tomato marscapone.

Solen, sō′len, n. a genus of bivalve molluscs—Razor-shell and Razor-fish.—adjs.

I wished that I were a razor-shell.

Mussels, razor-shell clams and maninoses added to the edible supplies.

It was the first time he had seen an ocean, or a razor-shell clam or an undertow or a beach littered with bottles, fruit crates, oil dregs, clinkers.

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