bivalve
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Looking to nature for inspiration, the McGill-led research zeroed in on the marine mussel byssus, a fibrous holdfast, which these bivalve mollusks use to anchor themselves in seashore habitats.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
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
Conchif′era, a term applied by Lamarck to bivalve molluscs and to very different Brachiopods.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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Marine Biology - Introductory
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