yugari

Noun

ugari (countable and uncountable, plural ugari or ugaris)

1. (also, attributive) The edible saltwater clam Plebidonax deltoides, which is endemic to Australia.
   • Our blackfellows are animated by no sentiment, and, instead of posing in an attitude, surveying with poetical eye the truly grand scene, search for a bivalve called, in the aboriginal tongue, Yugarie, a delicate member of the mussel family, in much esteem by fishermen as bait, and by the natives as...1880 July, “Redspinner” [pseudonym; William Senior], “Camping Out”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym], editor, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume CCXLVII (CCXLIX on title page), number 1795, London: Chatto...

   Synonyms:

   Coorong cockle, Goolwa cockle, pipi, pippie