Bivalve Synonyms

bī'vălv'

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clam
The definition of a clam is an animal that lives in shallow water with a hard shell and no backbone, or is slang for a U.S. dollar.
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cockle
Any of various weeds that grow in grainfields, as the corn cockle
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mollusk
Any of a large phylum (Mollusca) of invertebrate animals, including the chitons, gastropods, cephalopods, scaphopods, and bivalves characterized by a soft, unsegmented body, typically enclosed wholly or in part in a mantle and a calcareous shell, and usually having gills and a foot
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mussel
Any of numerous freshwater bivalve mollusks of the order Unionoida that burrow in the sand or mud of rivers, streams, and ponds.
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oyster
Any of various bivalve mollusks with an irregularly shaped, unequal shell, living attached to rocks, other shells, etc., and widely used as food
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scallop
The single shell of such a mollusk
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spat
A spattering sound, as of raindrops.
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bivalved
Having two valves.
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pelecypod
(Zoology) Any of the Pelecypoda.
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lamellibranch
Any marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk, of the class Lamellibranchia or Bivalvia; includes the clams, scallops and oysters
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Words Related to Bivalve

univalve
Having a shell consisting of a single valve or piece. Used of a mollusk.
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mollusc
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gastropod
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amphipod
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bryozoa
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ostracod
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bryozoan
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crustacea
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hydroid
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molluscs
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oligochaete
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echinoid
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Bivalve Sentence Examples

  • The Acephala, or Lamellibranchiata, are commonly known as bivalve shell-fish.

  • The common Mussel is the most common bivalve in Cornwall forming extensive beds on exposed rocky beaches.

  • An example of the latter is seen in a common little freshwater bivalve, the Pisidium pusillum, which has been studied by Lankester.

  • A two-edged weapon, of which the blade is of sharks' teeth, and a defensive armour of braided sennit, are also peculiar to the islands; a large adze, made of the shell of the Tridacna gigas (the largest bivalve known), was formerly used in the Carolines, probably by the old builder race.

  • It may assume the form of a bivalve shell entirely enclosing the body and limbs, as in many 6, maxilla (second maxilla).

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