bivalve
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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
In full transparency, I am so in love with this species of marine bivalve mollusks — but it didn't start out that way.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 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
But the ominousness of it: that long red slit between a dark sky and a dark Ionian sea, terrible old bivalve which has held life between its lips so long.
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Vocabulary lists containing bivalve
Marine Biology - Introductory
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Marine Biology - High School
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