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PIDDOCK

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• PIDDOCK (noun)
The noun PIDDOCK has 1 sense:

1. marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells

Familiarity information: PIDDOCK used as a noun is very rare.

• PIDDOCK (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("piddock" is a kind of...):

bivalve; lamellibranch; pelecypod (marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together)

Holonyms ("piddock" is a member of...):

genus Pholas; Pholas (type genus of the family Pholadidae: piddocks)

"Loose lips sink ships."
(English proverb)
"Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant."
(Native American proverb, Kiowa)
"The pebble comes from the mountain."
(Arabic proverb)
"Necessity teaches the naked woman to spin (a yarn)."
(Danish proverb)

Useful links:
Definition of genus Pholas
Definition of Pholas
Definition of pelecypod
Definition of lamellibranch
Definition of bivalve

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