bivalve
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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
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
New bivalve species and sideswimmer have been found to live communally with the greenish Bonellia spoonworm.
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
It contains a number of small bivalve shells.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
Vocabulary lists containing bivalve
Marine Biology - Introductory
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Marine Biology - High School
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