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Bivalve   /bˈaɪvˌælv/   Listen
Bivalve

noun
1.
Marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together.  Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypod.






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"Bivalve" Quotes from Famous Books



... dead shell that comes handy, without distinction of species, provided it be not excessively large. I notice, in its collection of bric-a-brac, the Physa, the Paludina, the Limnaea, the Amber snail [all pond snails] and even the Pisidium [a bivalve], that little ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre



Words linked to "Bivalve" :   cockle, blood clam, scollop, univalve, mussel, escallop, pelecypod, zoology, Bivalvia, piddock, zoological science, clam, lamellibranch, mollusk, shellfish, Lamellibranchia, scallop, bivalved, pelecypodous, oyster, class Pelecypoda, ark shell, class Lamellibranchia, mollusc, class Bivalvia



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