Definition of Bivalve. Meaning of Bivalve. Synonyms of Bivalve

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Definition of Bivalve

Bivalve
Bivalve Bi"valve, a. [Pref. bi- + valve.] (Zo["o]l. & Bot.) Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.
Bivalve
Bivalve Bi"valve, n. [F. bivalve; bi- (L. bis) + valve valve.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca. 2. (Bot.) A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

Meaning of Bivalve from wikipedia

- bodies enclosed by a s**** consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bivalves have no head and they lack some usual molluscan organs, like the radula...
- Freshwater bivalves are one kind of freshwater mollusc, along with freshwater snails. They are bivalves that live in fresh water as opposed to salt water...
- A ****le is an edible marine bivalve mollusc. Although many small edible bivalves are loosely called ****les, true ****les are species in the family Cardiidae...
- Nothoscordum bivalve is a species of flowering plant in the Amaryllidaceae known by the common names crowpoison and false garlic. It is native to the...
- States: Bivalve, Maryland Bivalve, New Jersey Bivalve, unincorporated community in Marin County, California All pages with titles beginning with Bivalve Bivalent...
- Rudists are a group of extinct box-, tube- or ring-shaped marine heterodont bivalves belonging to the order Hippuritida that arose during the Late Jur****ic...
- defined, often most prominent, highest part of each valve of the s**** of a bivalve or univalve mollusc. It usually contains the valve's beak, the oldest point...
- Bivalve is an unincorporated community and census-designated place along the eastern s**** of the lower Nanticoke River, near its mouth on the Chesapeake...
- A bivalve s**** is part of the body, the exoskeleton or s****, of a bivalve mollusk. In life, the s**** of this class of mollusks is composed of two hinged...
- used for breathing and excretion, the presence of a radula (except for bivalves), and the structure of the nervous system. Other than these common elements...