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bivalve
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bivalve has 1 sense
- bivalve(n = noun.animal) lamellibranch, pelecypod - marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together; Array is a kind of mollusc, mollusk, shellfish
is a member of bivalvia, class bivalvia, class lamellibranchia, class pelecypoda, lamellibranchia
has particulars: clam, cockle, oyster, ark shell, blood clam, mussel, escallop, scallop, scollop, piddock
Derived form adjective bivalve1
Adjective bivalve has 1 sense
- bivalve(a = adj.all) bivalved - used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.); Array Derived form noun bivalve1
Antonym: univalve
CIDE DICTIONARY
bivalve, n. [F. bivalve; bi- (L. bis) + valve valve.].
- A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca. [1913 Webster]
- A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves. [1913 Webster]
bivalve, a. [Pref. bi- + valve.].
Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bivalve, n. & adj.
--n. any of a group of aquatic molluscs of the class Bivalvia, with laterally compressed bodies enclosed within two hinged shells, e.g. oysters, mussels, etc.
--adj.
1 with a hinged double shell.
2 Biol. having two valves, e.g. of a pea-pod.
--n. any of a group of aquatic molluscs of the class Bivalvia, with laterally compressed bodies enclosed within two hinged shells, e.g. oysters, mussels, etc.
--adj.
1 with a hinged double shell.
2 Biol. having two valves, e.g. of a pea-pod.
ROGET THESAURUS
bivalve
Duplication
N duplication, doubling, gemination, ingemination, reduplication, iteration, renewal, double, doubled, bicipital, bicephalous, bidental, bilabiate, bivalve, bivalvular, bifold, biform, bilateral, bifarious, bifacial, twofold, two-sided, disomatous, duplex, double-faced, double-headed, twin, duplicate, ingeminate, second, twice, once more, over again, as much again, twofold, secondly, in the second place, again.
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