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CLAM (C Library For Audio And Music)
Clams are saltwater or freshwater mollusks that have two hinged shells. Clam may also refer to: * Clam AntiVirus, a free antivirus program * Clam, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département, in France * Clam, Virginia, US, an unincorporated community * Clam (Camp Lazlo), a fictional character in the animated television series ''Camp Lazlo'' * CLAM (C++ Library for Audio and Music), a software framework for audio data processing * Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing, CLAMS (Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing), a library network in southeast Massachusetts * CLaMS (Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere), a modular chemistry transport model system * Clams (SpongeBob SquarePants), "Clams" (''SpongeBob SquarePants''), an episode of the animated television series ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' * Clement Attlee (1883–1967), nicknamed "Clam" * A member or constituent group of the Clamshell Alliance, an American anti-nuclear activist group See als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clam
Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve mollusc. The word is often applied only to those that are deemed edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the sea floor or riverbeds. Clams have two shells of equal size connected by two adductor muscles and have a powerful burrowing foot. They live in both freshwater and marine environments; in salt water they prefer to burrow down into the mud and the turbidity of the water required varies with species and location; the greatest diversity of these is in North America. Clams in the culinary sense do not live attached to a substrate (whereas oysters and mussels do) and do not live near the bottom (whereas scallops do). In culinary usage, clams are commonly eaten marine bivalves, as in clam digging and the resulting soup, clam chowder. Many edible clams such as palourde clams are ovoid or triangular; however, razor clams have an elongated parallel-sided shell, suggesting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
