bivalve
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Left almost entirely unsupervised by her distracted, glamorous parents, Meg makes the city her oyster, with all the grit and pungency that little bivalve implies.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2023
Goto's team determined from morphological and molecular analyses that two of the three symbionts -- the bivalve Basterotia bonelliphila and amphipod Leucothoe bonelliae -- were new to science and deserved study of their evolutionary profiles.
From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2023
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
Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
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Marine Biology - Introductory
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