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Bivalve

noun

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

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... parts of a bivalve shell are like thin saucers, concave inside, convex outside. The inside is smooth, polished. The outside is rougher, sometimes with graceful ribs or concentric ridges or combinations of both. Univalves are conical and spiraling, ...

— Let's collect rocks & shells • Shell Oil Company

... ploughed up in the chalky fields, near the side of the down, and given to me for the singularity of its appearance, which, to an incurious eye, seems like a petrified fish of about four inches long, the cardo passing for an head and mouth. It is in reality a bivalve of the Linnaean genus of Mytilus, and the species of Crista Galli; called by Lister, Rastellum; by Rumphius, Ostreum plicatum minus; by D'Argenville, Auris Porci, s. Crista Galli, and by those who make collections cock's comb. ...

— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White

... acquainted with what is passing on around, and as he is much more active and alert than his companion he sees danger much farther away, and gives notice of it, asking for the door to be shut by lightly pinching the mussel's gill. But this gratitude of the Crustacean towards a sympathetic bivalve is merely a hypothesis; we do not exactly know what passes in the intimacy of these two ...

— The Industries of Animals • Frederic Houssay

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