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
It undergoes three moults, each time altering its figure, until at the third exuviation it has become enclosed in a bivalve shell, and has acquired a second eye.
From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)
Vocabulary lists containing bivalve
Marine Biology - Introductory
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Marine Biology - Middle School
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Marine Biology - High School
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