Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A very large, edible clam (Panope abrupta) of the Pacific coast of northwest North America.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
goeduck .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A gigantic clam (
Glycimeris generosa ) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A species of large saltwater
clam , native to the North American Pacific Northwest, Washington to Alaska, known as Panopeaabrupta or Panopegenerosa , in the familyHiatellidae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large edible clam found burrowing deeply in sandy mud along the Pacific coast of North America; weighs up to six pounds; has siphons that can extend to several feet and cannot be withdrawn into the shell
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The challenge: create surf and turf from an exotic list of ingredients, things like rattlesnake, black chicken, something frightening called geoduck, etc.
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Another such word is geoduck, which is pronounced "gooey duck"; a less violently dissonant, but still unpredictable, spelling is distelfink, which according to Merriam-Webster's is pronounced DISH-tlfink it's from Pennsylvania Dutch dischdelfink 'goldfinch', although the AHD gives the normalized DIST-lfink.
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I myself have never had a geoduck which is slightly embarassing in my field but I can admit it cheers -
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People have already beaten me to "geoduck" on the last picture, so I'm going to have to go with tube worm.
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A Feb. 3 front-page article about a boom in geoduck exports to Asia incorrectly said that the Suquamish reservation is on the island.
Corrections 2011
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Because according to "Dr. Long," the geoduck was considered to be an aphrodisiac in Asia, and people were eating the mollusk into extinction.
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His Taylor Shellfish Farms raises a half-dozen varieties of oysters, plus clams, mussels and even giant geoduck clams two feet long that it sends to China and Japan.
Oysterman Fought for Puget Sound, Reaped Its Bounty Stephen Miller 2011
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It makes much more sense to use that seafood which is local – which for Seattle, includes geoduck.
Menu For Hope 6 2009
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In the late 1980s, prosecutors spent nearly two years building a case against a geoduck-clam smuggling operation that resulted, Mr. Welch says, in "the largest white-collar fraud case in Northwest history."
When Criminals Clam Up Geoffrey Norman 2010
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When the lawmen finally take him down, the evidence indicates that he has illegally harvested 200,000 pounds of geoduck clams.
When Criminals Clam Up Geoffrey Norman 2010
mollusque commented on the word geoduck
They were fourteen years old; geoducks were important. It was summer and little else really mattered.
--David Guterson, 1994, Snow Falling on Cedars
November 9, 2007
madmouth commented on the word geoduck
Apparently it is pronounced, 'gooeyduck'. This really lends an additional note of horror to this frightening clam-like object.
April 13, 2009
ephraim99 commented on the word geoduck
The pronunciation makes this word interesting. To look at the word, one would think it meant "earth duck" or maybe "rock duck", but it's a clam pronounced, as madmouth noted, gooeyduck. The only case I know of where 'eo' is pronounced 'oo-ee'.
May 27, 2010
plethora commented on the word geoduck
Yikes, that is a scary looking critter. Almost nightmare fuel.
Where is the scifi horror movie featuring geoducks? They'd barely even need to be mutated.
May 27, 2010
Greendragon commented on the word geoduck
A large featherless uni-ped. Flightless, they live underground.
March 17, 2012