Wiktionary
n. A type of chowder made from clams and usually potatoes, with numerous variations.
WordNet
n. chowder containing clams
Wikipedia
Clam chowder is any of several chowder soups containing clams and broth. In addition to clams, common ingredients include diced potatoes, onions, and celery. Other vegetables are not typically used, but small carrot strips or a garnish of parsley might occasionally be added primarily for color. A garnish of bay leaves adds both color and flavor. It is believed that clams were used in chowder because of the relative ease of harvesting them. Clam chowder is usually served with saltine crackers or small, hexagonal oyster crackers.
Usage examples of "clam chowder".
A fine rich clam chowder had been served in their quarters by the two Bobs.
You're smart and kind and you cook the best clam chowder in New England.
They sidled up to the bar and soon learned that the fare, besides clam chowder, was a retro combination of burgers, syllabub, and mead.
It had been years since he had braved the smoke and sour smell of grease in order to eat what was arguably the best clam chowder in the Pacific Northwest.
Tony had sent her a large container of clam chowder from one of the wonderful waterfront restaurants in Newport.
They'd eaten clam chowder here one time recently, and she had said how much she missed the good chowder she remembered from Rhode Island.
The light from the flickering oil lamps was dimmer than earlier in the evening, and his first thought was that the clam chowder might have gone off.
She listened attentively, for he kept his voice low and his words shielded from the people eating around them, pausing once when he came to the aftermath of the killings to gather his thoughts so that he could relate clearly what the experience had done to his psyche, pausing a second time when the bowls of clam chowder arrived and the waitress was standing over them.
The waiter came along with clam chowder for me and bean soup for Donelly.
We stopped off in New York for the night, before hopping on up to Boston (some time Ill tell you about that two days in Worcester, with the Tigers mother packing us a box-lunch for the Dartmouth-Harvard game that consisted of Lachryma Christi, individual guinea hens and hot clam chowder.
We went to Balboa, and we ate dinner at the Crab Cooker, buying individual bowls of clam chowder and eating them on the bench outside the restaurant, watching and commenting upon the passersby.