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Bivalve   Listen
noun
Bivalve  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.
2.
(Bot.) A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.





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"Bivalve" Quotes from Famous Books



... radiating arms around the object of its meal. It then proceeds to suck the oyster out of its shell, and so powerful a suction organ has the starfish that he can pull an oyster through its shell, by forcing the bivalve to open. ...
— Tom Swift and his Undersea Search - or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic • Victor Appleton
... the oviducts in the female, opening externally to admit the passage of the egg to the ovipositor: receives the penis of the male in copulation and is sometimes called oviduct: "every part, the office of which is to cover, protect or defend the tongue": "the bivalve coriaceous sheath or cover of the spicula": generally, ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith
... Nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer argue that for instance the beautiful hinge of a bivalve shell must have been made by an intelligent being, like the hinge of a door by man. There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows. But I have discussed this subject ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 • Various


Words linked to "Bivalve" :   class Pelecypoda, pelecypod, zoology, mollusc, bivalved, class Bivalvia, pelecypodous, lamellibranch, oyster, ark shell, cockle, Lamellibranchia, class Lamellibranchia, scollop, blood clam, mollusk, piddock


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