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Valvate :: Valvate (a.) Resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or opening by, a valve or valves; valvular..

Lag :: Lag (n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing..

Sea Clam :: Sea clam () Any one of the large bivalve mollusks found on the open seacoast, especially those of the family Mactridae, as the common American species. (Mactra, / Spisula, solidissima); -- called also beach clam, and surf clam..

Throttle :: Throttle (n.) The throttle valve.

Fig-shell :: Fig-shell (n.) A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form..

Univalve :: Univalve (n.) A shell consisting of one valve only; a mollusk whose shell is composed of a single piece, as the snails and conchs..

Dimyaria :: Dimyaria (n. pl.) An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve..

Valve :: Valve (n.) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry..

Bear''s-paw :: Bear's-paw (n.) A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament..

Valve :: Valve (n.) One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts.

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..

Equivalve :: Equivalve (a.) Alt. of Equivalve.

Bubble Shell :: Bubble shell () A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata..

Cyphonautes :: Cyphonautes (n.) The free-swimming, bivalve larva of certain Bryozoa..

Valvular :: Valvular (a.) Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule..

Bellerophon :: Bellerophon (n.) A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age..

Buccinum :: Buccinum (n.) A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).

Cingulum :: Cingulum (n.) A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.

Tube :: Tube (n.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.

Quadrivalvular :: Quadrivalvular (a.) Having four valves; quadrivalve.

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