cockle
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- noun
- /ˈkɑːkəl/
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coquina
- On weekends, we love to go to the beach and collect cockles from the sand.
- clams and cockles
The ones we eat, they're scallops, mussels, cockles, oysters, things like that.
- The ones we eat, they're scallops, mussels, cockles, oysters, things like that.
- Oh, yeah, with cockle shells and silver bells and pretty maids all in a row.
Examples
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The seafood restaurant specializes in dishes made with fresh cockles and clams.
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"Look inside a cockle shell."
Fiction book (1997) -
We're going to eat these cooked and pickled cockles directly from the UK.
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Every now and then, he will suck a cockle from its shell or crunch on a particularly tasty piece of seaweed.
Fiction book (1993) -
The ones we eat, they're scallops, mussels, cockles, oysters, things like that.
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Hector is foraging on the shoreline, gathering cockles, seaweeds, mussels, crabs, anything edible.
Fiction book (1993) -
For dinner, she prepared a delicious pasta dish topped with steamed cockles and garlic.
Synonyms
A common small sea animal with a rounded edible shell that lives on sandy coasts and mudflats
A small shellfish like a clam that people eat
Compounds
- UK
A plant with bright purple, trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous seeds that grows in grain fields and roadsides
- UK
A small European annual plant with pale pink flowers that often grows as a weed in grain fields
- Specialized
A plant with sticky stems and groups of white flowers that open in the evening
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Etymology
Cockle (noun) comes from an old French word coquille meaning 'shell', a root you also see in words like conch. So a cockle is a small, edible sea shell with a rounded, ribbed shape you can find on the beach.