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bivalve

[bahy-valv] / ˈbaɪˌvælv /
NOUN
cockle
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He put the wee bivalve in a petri dish and asked a colleague to set it aside.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2024

He also analyzed oxygen isotope levels in the bivalve shells to determine that the holdfasts lived in slightly warmer water than today, at the upper range of temperatures found in modern kelp forests.

From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 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

Mya, mī′a, n. a genus of bivalve shells: a clam of this genus.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various




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