鳥貝

Japanese

Kanji in this term
鳥	貝

Etymology

Compound of 鳥 (tori, “bird”) +‎ 貝 (gai, “shellfish”). So called in part because the foot of the mollusc looks a bit like a bird's foot, and because the flavor is similar to chicken.

Noun

鳥貝 (hiragana とりがい, katakana トリガイ, romaji torigai, historical hiragana とりがひ)

1. a Japanese cockle, an egg cockle: an edible marine bivalve mollusc of family Cardiidae, species Fulvia mutica

See also

• トリガイ on the Japanese Wikipedia.ja.Wikipedia:トリガイ
• Fulvia (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Fulvia (genus)