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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
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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...
- States:
Bivalve,
Maryland Bivalve, New
Jersey Bivalve,
unincorporated community in
Marin County,
California All
pages with
titles beginning with
Bivalve Bivalent...
- 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...
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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...
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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...
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Bivalve is an
unincorporated community and census-designated
place along the
eastern s**** of the
lower Nanticoke River, near its
mouth on the Chesapeake...
- 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...
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Megalodon is an
extinct genus of
bivalve molluscs that
reportedly lived from the
Devonian to the Jur****ic period. It is not clear, however, that all the...
- 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...
- part of the
anatomical structure of a
bivalve s****, i.e. the s**** of a
bivalve mollusk. The s**** of a
bivalve has two
valves and
these are
joined by...
