cherrystone, cherrystone clam
(noun) a half-grown quahog
cherrystone, cherrystone clam
(noun) small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cherrystone (plural cherrystones)
(used as a size classification by fish merchants) A hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) that is larger than a countneck, littleneck or topneck but smaller than a quahog.
Source: Wiktionary
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
