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bivalve

[bahy-valv] / ˈbaɪˌvælv /
NOUN
cockle
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This marks only the second bivalve species ever documented entirely through non-invasive micro-CT scanning.

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

Umbo, um′bō, n. the boss of a shield: a knob: the point of a bivalve shell immediately above the hinge:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various




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