cockle

Definition of Cockle in English :

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Noun

1. cockle

common edible European bivalve

2. cockle

common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs

Verb

3. cockle, riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate

stir up (water) so as to form ripples

4. cockle, crumple, knit, pucker, rumple

to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

Example Sentences:
'She puckered her lips'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cockle

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noun

1.

any sand-burrowing bivalve mollusc of the family Cardiidae, esp Cardium edule (edible cockle) of Europe, typically having a rounded shell with radiating ribs

2.

any of certain similar or related molluscs

3. short for cockleshell (sense 1)

4.

a wrinkle or puckering, as in cloth or paper

5.

a small furnace or stove

6. cockles of one's heart

verb

7.

to contract or cause to contract into wrinkles

noun

any of several plants, esp the corn cockle, that grow as weeds in cornfields

Cockle

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noun

1.

any of a family (Cardiidae) of edible, marine bivalve mollusks with two heart-shaped, radially ridged shells

2.

a cockleshell

3.

a wrinkle; pucker

verb intransitive, verb transitiveWord forms: ˈcockled or ˈcockling

4.

to wrinkle; pucker

noun

any of various weeds that grow in grainfields, as the corn cockle

Cockle

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n.

1. Any of various chiefly marine bivalve mollusks of the family Cardiidae, having rounded or heart-shaped shells with radiating ribs.

2. The shell of a cockle.

3. A wrinkle; a pucker.

4. Nautical A cockleshell.

intr. & tr.v. cock·led, cock·ling, cock·les

To become or cause to become wrinkled or puckered.

n.

Any of several weedy plants, especially the corn cockle.

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