clam
意味
- ハマグリ
- ハマグリを取る
例文
Sea otters love to eat clams while swimming on their backs.
ラッコは背泳ぎをしながら蛤を食べるのが大好きです。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English clam (“pincers, vice, clamp”), from Old English clam (“bond, fetter, grip, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan (“press, squeeze together”). The sense “dollar” may allude to wampum. The sense "Scientologist" alludes to the Scientologist belief that human thetans (souls) previously inhabited clams.