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bivalve

noun as in cockle

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In New York City, they’re repopulating the harbor with farmed oysters to build reefs with the bivalves that stop the kind of erosion that made Hurricane Sandy so destructive while filtering toxins out of the water.

For local oysters, stop at Little Creek Oyster Farm and Market, where they serve buckets of the bivalves on picnic tables in front of the Peconic River.

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Solar Oysters’ goal is for the rig to allow farmers to raise bivalves at a cost of 24 cents per oyster, he added, because oysters are often sold for 50 cents each.

Because scallops are bivalves and they filter near-shore saltwater, they are subject to collecting impurities in some regional waters.

Her instructions for “the perfect scallops” include “Season both sides and let those little marine bivalve mollusks chillax.”

Amongst other appearances, however, we observed a bivalve, which seemed to differ from terebratula and its congeners.

If the ligament of a gaping bivalve should become dry and stiff, it can be softened by putting it in water.

A pink bivalve shell was eventually discovered, which he considered worthy of containing the honoured corpse.

A straw hat, curled up into a grotesque shape, lay at his feet like some distorted bivalve.

Arca, a genus of bivalve molluscs, family Arcad, whose shells are known as ark-shells.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bivalve, such as: mollusk, pucker, ripple, and wrinkle.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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