Asiatic clam
noun
Definition of Asiatic clam
: asian clam Appeared in the Potomac in the 1980s. Now some sections of the river near Washington have 1,000 Asiatic clams per square meter. — Washington Post, 29 May 2005
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First Known Use of asiatic clam
1964
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