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Cockle: The ventricle of the heart. The origin of the word cockle in this sense is a matter of conjecture but in medieval Latin, the ventricle of the heart was called cochlea cordis and cochlea may have been corrupted to cockle. See also: Cockles of the heart.
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary ( kÅk ' É™l ) n. Any of various bivalve mollusks of the family Cardiidae, having rounded or heart-shaped ...
cock·le 1 (k k l) n. 1. Any of various bivalve mollusks of the family Cardiidae, having rounded or heart-shaped shells with radiating ribs. 2. The shell of a cockle.
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noun 1. any bivalve mollusk of the genus Cardium, having somewhat heart-shaped, radially ribbed valves, especially C. edule, the common edible species of Europe. 2 ...
COCKLE, in zoology, a mollusc (Cardium) of the class Lamellibranchia. A very large number of species of Cardium have been distinguished by conchologists.