🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

鸟蛤

Pronunciation / Transliteration: niǎo há

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cardium/ˈkɑːr.di.əm/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"鸟蛤是一种生活在沙滩里的双壳类软体动物。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A genus of edible bivalve mollusks comprising the cockles, characterized by heart-shaped shells when viewed from the end.

    "The paleontologist identified the fossilized remains as belonging to a species of Cardium."
  2. 2

    Any bivalve mollusk belonging to the family Cardiidae.

    "Cardium shells are commonly found washed ashore along sandy European beaches."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the New Latin genus name, originating from the Ancient Greek kardia meaning 'heart', due to the heart-shaped cross-section of the shell valves. The term was adopted into scientific English in the 18th century for taxonomic classification of bivalve mollusks.

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