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COCKLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cockle" is a kind of...):
bivalve; lamellibranch; pelecypod (marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cockle"):
Cardium edule; edible cockle (common edible European cockle)
Holonyms ("cockle" is a member of...):
Cardium; genus Cardium (type genus of the family Cardiidae: cockles)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Common edible European bivalve
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("cockle" is a kind of...):
shellfish (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))
Holonyms ("cockle" is a part of...):
Cardium edule; edible cockle (common edible European cockle)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To gather something into small wrinkles or folds
Example:
She puckered her lips
Synonyms:
cockle; crumple; knit; pucker; rumple
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cockle" is one way to...):
crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle (make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic)
Verb group:
draw (contract)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Stir up (water) so as to form ripples
Synonyms:
cockle; riffle; ripple; ruffle; undulate
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "cockle" is one way to...):
flow; flux (move or progress freely as if in a stream)
"Cockle" entails doing...:
fold; fold up; turn up (bend or lay so that one part covers the other)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
