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cock·le

cockle

 
pronunciation:
ka kl
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part of speech: noun
definition: a small animal with a soft body and a hard shell shaped like a heart. Cockles are mollusks with two hinged shells that open and close. They are kinds of clams. People sometimes eat cockles.
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  invertebrate, mollusk