Term: clam: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
Broader: bivalve: marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Unrelated: bermuda chub: food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships
Broader: bivalve: marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Unrelated: bacteria: (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants
Broader: bivalve: marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Unrelated: monogamist: someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time)
Broader: bivalve: marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Unrelated: percolation: the act of making coffee in a percolator
Broader: bivalve: marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Unrelated: cephalosporin: one of several broad spectrum antibiotic substances obtained from fungi and related to penicillin (trade names Mefoxin); addition of side chains has produced semisynthetic antibiotics with greater antibacterial activity
Broader: bivalve: marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Unrelated: decomposition: the analysis of a vector field
Broader: bivalve: marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Unrelated: corrective: a device for treating injury or disease
Broader: bivalve: marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Unrelated: buster: a person who breaks horses
Broader: bivalve: marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Unrelated: zen buddhist: an adherent of the doctrines of Zen Buddhism
Broader: bivalve: marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Unrelated: bridge: a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth