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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of the halves of a shell of a bivalve, such as an oyster.
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- adjective rare, colloquial, especially with "on the" Inexpensive; not
overpriced . - noun physics, figuratively Any half of a roughly spherical-like object; any
dome -shaped object. - noun of food, especially with "on the" Either half of a
clamshell especially when used to serve individual portions of spiced, minced, breaded, bakedclams .
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