Synonyms for cockle

Synonyms for (noun) cockle

Synonyms: cockle

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

Similar words: lamellibranch, bivalve, pelecypod

Definition: marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together


Synonyms: cockle

Definition: common edible European bivalve

Similar words: shellfish

Definition: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)


Synonyms for (verb) cockle

Synonyms: rumple, crumple, pucker, cockle, knit

Definition: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

Usage: She puckered her lips

Similar words: crease, crinkle, crisp, wrinkle, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up

Definition: make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in

Usage: The dress got wrinkled; crease the paper like this to make a crane


Synonyms: ruffle, cockle, undulate, riffle, ripple

Definition: stir up (water) so as to form ripples

Similar words: flow, flux

Definition: move or progress freely as if in a stream

Usage: The crowd flowed out of the stadium


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