tridacna

IPA: traɪdˈæknʌ

Any member of the genus Tridacna of large saltwater clams with heavy fluted shells.

Examples of "tridacna" in Sentences

Tridacna gigas is one of the most endangered species amongst the clams.
An adult Tridacna gigas can release more than 500 million eggs at a time.
Valves of the tridacna gigas are used as holy water stoups in the church of
The former is supposed to have originated from the tridacna shell, the latter from the taro.
Indian corn into meal; all day long, somewhere in the village, the dull thud of the stamping-pole in the large tridacna shell is heard.
Later on, in the seventeenth century and down to the present day, the valves of a shell known as the tridacna gigas, a mollusc indigenous to Oceania, did service as fonts.
The tridacna were afterward procured in a safe boat, thirty of them taking the place of three tons of cement ballast, which I threw overboard to make room and give buoyancy.
Around their knees and ankles they wear small, shiny shells, and on their chests a large circular plate of tridacna-shell, to which is attached a dainty bit of carved tortoise-shell representing a combination of fish and turtle.
IRISH BELLEEK: Large collection of over 200 pieces with many early black mark examples including a pink Neptune tea set, Shamrock tea set, green Neptune tea set, baskets and many early and hard to find patterns and shapes including shell, grass, hexagon, tridacna, and more.