cockle

英 [ˈkɒkl]

美 [ˈkɑːkl]

n.  鸟蛤(可食用的有壳小水生动物)

复数：cockles　现在分词：cockling　过去式：cockled　第三人称单数：cockles　过去分词：cockled　

BNC.24856 / COCA.34944

习惯用语

n.

warm the cockles (of sb's heart)
• 使人内心感到高兴（或同情）
  to make sb feel happy or sympathetic

牛津词典

noun

• 鸟蛤（可食用的有壳小水生动物）
  a small shellfish that can be eaten

柯林斯词典

• 鸟蛤;海扇
  Cocklesare small edible shellfish.

英英释义

noun

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

verb

• to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
  1. She puckered her lips
  Synonym:puckerrumplecrumpleknit
• stir up (water) so as to form ripples
  Synonym:rippleruffleriffleundulate

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