Usually means: Marine mollusk, bores into rock.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (pholas)

▸ noun:  Any of several borrowing marine bivalve molluscs of the genus Pholas.

Similar:
genus pholas, pholad, date fish, date shell, piddock, phloladid, phyllidiid, pholid, philinoid, philinoglossid, more...

Opposite:
aphallic, apophallic, non-phallic

Phrases:
pholas dactylus, genus pholas, more...

Adjectives:
single, boring, common, clam, bivalve

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Similar:
genus pholas, pholad, date fish, date shell, piddock, phloladid, phyllidiid, pholid, philinoid, philinoglossid, more...

Opposite:
aphallic, apophallic, non-phallic

Phrases:
pholas dactylus, genus pholas, more...

Adjectives:
single, boring, common, clam, bivalve



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