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Nucleus :: Nucleus (n.) The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell..

Valve :: Valve (n.) A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door..

Ark Shell :: Ark shell () A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies.

Sutured :: Suture (n.) A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell..

Valved :: Valved (a.) Having a valve or valve; valvate.

Subumbrella :: Subumbonal (a.) Beneath or forward of the umbos of a bivalve shell.

Beak :: Beak (n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve..

Malacobdella :: Malacobdella (n.) A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha..

Discoid :: Discoid (a.) Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus..

Septifragal :: Septifragal (a.) Breaking from the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis..

Marginella :: Marginella (n.) A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas..

Skimmer :: Skimmer (n.) Any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops..

Pecten :: Pecten (n.) Any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten, and numerous allied genera (family Pectinidae); a scallop. See Scallop..

Ostracea :: Ostracea (n. pl.) A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells.

Cardo :: Cardo (n.) The hinge of a bivalve shell.

Dolium :: Dolium (n.) A genus of large univalve mollusks, including the partridge shell and tun shells..

Plate-gilled :: Plate-gilled (a.) Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks..

Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers..

Integropallial :: Integropallial (a.) Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells..

Columella :: Columella (n.) The upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells.

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