bivalve

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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

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

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