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bivalve::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bivalved |
Examples of bivalve
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As they grow, statoblasts develop protective bivalve-like shells made of chitin.
From the en.wikipedia.org
After several blows, the bivalve cracks open and the fish eats the meat inside.
From the smh.com.au
The $115 tasting menu features a fragrant, barely-plumped Island Creek bivalve.
From the newsday.com
Scott Zahl was a marine biology student when he was bitten by the bivalve bug.
From the sacbee.com
Hemiconcavodonta is an extinctgenus of bivalve in the extinct family Praenuculidae.
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Producing phytoplankton to feed bivalve molluscs is now vital to my business.
From the newscientist.com
Concavodonta is an extinctgenus of early bivalve in the extinct family Praenuculidae.
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Those animals boring into the rock include sponges, bivalve mollusks, and sipunculans.
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For centuries, the bay and the bivalve were as tightly linked as a forest and its trees.
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- Used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)
- Marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together
- Bivalvia is a class of marine and freshwater mollusks known for some time as Pelecypoda, but now commonly referred to simply as bivalves. As with Gastropoda and Cephalopoda, the term Pelecypoda is in reference to the animal itself while Bivalvia simply describes the shell. ...
- Any mollusc belonging to the taxonomic class Bivalvia, characterized by a shell consisting of two hinged sections, such as a scallop, clam, mussel or oyster
- (bivalved) having two sections or halves.
- (Bivalves) Molluscs that have a two-part hinged shell, such as clams, oysters, mussels and scallops.
- (Bivalves) An animal (as a clam or oyster) with a 2-valved shell.
- (Bivalves) Gk originated word used for shellfishes with two shells (i.e. oysters, mussels etc).
- A mollusk having two shells hinged together, as the oyster, clam, or mussel; or any animal with two halves to its shell such as an ostracode or brachiopod.
