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☆ pismo clam (piz′mō)

a heavy-shelled, edible clam (Tivela stultorum) found on sandy beaches along the coast of California and Mexico

Etymology: after Pismo Beach, Calif.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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