chēma — Lewis & Short
chēma, ae, f., = xh/mh,
I a gaping mussel, a cockle, Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 147 Jan. (al. leg. chama).
The corpus record — Latin
chema
chema · f
a gaping mussel
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- Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
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No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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