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Definition of bivalve
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Bivalve
(a.)
Having
two
shells
or
valves
which open and shut, as the
oyster
and
certain
seed
vessels..
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Mollusca
::
Mollusca
(n. pl.) One of the grand
divisions
of the
animal
kingdom,
including
the
classes
Cephalopoda,
Gastropoda,
PteropodaScaphopoda,
and
Lamellibranchiata,
or
Conchifera.
These
animals
have an
unsegmented
bilateral
body, with most of the
organs
and parts
paired,
but not
repeated
longitudinally.
Most of them
develop
a
mantle,
which
incloses
either
a
branchial
or a
pulmonary
cavity.
They are
generally
more or less
covered
and
protected
by a
calcareous
shell,
which may be
univalve,
bivalve,
or m
Saxicava
::
Saxicava
(n.) Any
species
of
marine
bivalve
shells
of the genus
Saxicava.
Some of the
species
are noted for their power of
boring
holes in
limestone
and
similar
rocks.
Integropallial
::
Integropallial
(a.)
Having
the
pallial
line
entire,
or
without
a
sinus,
as
certain
bivalve
shells..
Avicula
::
Avicula
(n.) A genus of
marine
bivalves,
having
a
pearly
interior,
allied
to the pearl
oyster;
-- so
called
from a
supposed
resemblance
of the
typical
species
to a
bird..
Tube
::
Tube (n.) One of the
siphons
of a
bivalve
mollusk.
Pholas
::
Pholas
(n.) Any one of
numerous
species
of
marine
bivalve
mollusks
of the genus
Pholas,
or
family
Pholadidae.
They bore holes for
themselves
in clay, peat, and soft
rocks..
Bivalve
::
Bivalve
(n.) A
pericarp
in which the seed case opens or
splits
into two parts or
valves.
Pallial
::
Pallial
(a.) Of or
pretaining
to a
mantle,
especially
to the
mantle
of
mollusks;
produced
by the
mantle;
as, the
pallial
line, or
impression,
which marks the
attachment
of the
mantle
on the inner
surface
of a
bivalve
shell.
See
Illust.
of
Bivalve..
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..
Valve
::
Valve (n.) One of the
pieces
or
divisions
of
bivalve
or
multivalve
shells.
Subumbrella
::
Subumbonal
(a.)
Beneath
or
forward
of the umbos of a
bivalve
shell.
Inoceramus
::
Inoceramus
(n.) An
extinct
genus of
large,
fossil,
bivalve
shells,allied
to the
mussels.
The genus is
characteristic
of the
Cretaceous
period..
Dimyaria
::
Dimyaria
(n. pl.) An order of
lamellibranchiate
mollusks
having
an
anterior
and
posterior
adductor
muscle,
as the
common
clam. See
Bivalve..
Typhlosole
::
Typhlosole
(n.) A fold of the wall which
projects
into the
cavity
of the
intestine
in
bivalve
mollusks,
certain
annelids,
starfishes,
and some other
animals..
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..
Brachiopoda
::
Brachiopoda
(n.) A class of
Molluscoidea
having
a
symmetrical
bivalve
shell,
often
attached
by a
fleshy
peduncle..
Inclusa
::
Inclusa
(n. pl.) A tribe of
bivalve
mollusks,
characterized
by the
closed
state of the
mantle
which
envelops
the body. The ship borer
(Teredo
navalis)
is an
example..
Nucleus
::
Nucleus
(n.) The tip, or
earliest
part, of a
univalve
or
bivalve
shell..
Eye
::
Eye (n.) The scar to which the
adductor
muscle
is
attached
in
oysters
and other
bivalve
shells;
also, the
adductor
muscle
itself,
esp. when used as food, as in the
scallop..
Asiphonate
::
Asiphonate
(a.)
Destitute
of a
siphon
or
breathing
tube; -- said of many
bivalve
shells.
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