quahog

Meanings

Noun

• An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria.
• A similar edible clam found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters, the ocean quahog, black quahog, mahogany clam or Icelandic cyprine, Arctica islandica (species)

Verb

• To dig for quahogs.

Related

Similar words

• hard clam, chowder clam, round clam; count neck , littleneck , cherrystone , topneck
• chowder clam

Origin

• Most often thought to be from Narragansett poquaûhock, or perhaps from pohkeni + hogki. Alternatively from Mohegan-Pequot p'quaghhaug
• or another Algonquian language.