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bivalve

[bahy-valv] / ˈbaɪˌvælv /
NOUN
cockle
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A major highlight of the project is the detailed anatomical study of Myonera aleutiana, a carnivorous bivalve.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

He put the wee bivalve in a petri dish and asked a colleague to set it aside.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2024

The shells belonged to an assortment of tiny seafloor creatures, including small clams; bivalve crustaceans called ostracods; cone-shaped animals known as hyoliths; and stylophorans, oddly shaped precursors to starfish.

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023

You say bivalve and deep water coral reefs grow over the rigs' legs, yet reefs are otherwise hard to come by in the Northern Gulf.

From Salon • Sep. 26, 2023

It undergoes three moults, each time altering its figure, until at the third exuviation it has become enclosed in a bivalve shell, and has acquired a second eye.

From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)




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