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Farmyard :: Farmyard (n.) The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings..

Heteromyaria :: Heteromyaria (n. pl.) A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus..

Monomyaria :: Monomyaria (n.pl.) An order of lamellibranchs having but one muscle for closing the shell, as the oyster..

Lobby :: Lobby (n.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard..

Unimuscular :: Unimuscular (a.) Having only one adductor muscle, and one muscular impression on each valve, as the oyster; monomyarian..

Himyaric :: Himyaric (a.) Alt. of Himyariti.

Mononomial :: Mononomial (n. & a.) Monomyal.

Mya :: Mya (n.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, including the common long, or soft-shelled, clam..

Clam :: Clam (v. t.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve..

Monomya :: Monomya (n.pl.) Alt. of Monomyari.

Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard..

Dimyary :: Dimyary (a. & n.) Same as Dimyarian.

Spoutless :: Spoutfish (n.) A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes..

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata..

Myalgia :: Myalgia (n.) Pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism or neuralgia.

Monomyary :: Monomyary (a.) Of or pertaining to the Monomya.

Zilla :: Zilla (n.) A low, thorny, suffrutescent, crucifeous plant (Zilla myagroides) found in the deserts of Egypt. Its leaves are boiled in water, and eaten, by the Arabs..

Monomyarian :: Monomyarian (a.) Alt. of Monomyar.

Solitaire :: Solitaire (n.) Any species of American thrushlike birds of the genus Myadestes. They are noted their sweet songs and retiring habits. Called also fly-catching thrush. A West Indian species (Myadestes sibilans) is called the invisible bird.

Myaria :: Myaria (n. pl.) A division of bivalve mollusks of which the common clam (Mya) is the type.

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