noun
tellin
TEH-lihn
noun
1
A small burrowing sea clam that filters food particles from the sand it lives in.
"Beachcombers often find the delicate, colourful shells of a tellin washed up on the sand."
How to Use Tellin
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA type of small sand-burrowing clam, often collected for its pretty shell.
Word Forms
tellins plural
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Etymology
From the New Latin genus name Tellina, itself from an Ancient Greek word for a small bivalve shellfish.