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bivalve

[bahy-valv] / ˈbaɪˌvælv /
NOUN
cockle
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Melbourne drew on a historical resource -- the Museum's large bivalve collection, which dates to the late 1800s -- to trace environmental changes in natural settings.

From Science Daily Apr. 17, 2024

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

A bivalve is said to be equivalve when the two shells composing it are of the same size, inequivalve when they are not.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Peter Gray




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