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bivalve

[bahy-valv] / ˈbaɪˌvælv /
NOUN
cockle
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He put the wee bivalve in a petri dish and asked a colleague to set it aside.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2024

Goto's team determined from morphological and molecular analyses that two of the three symbionts -- the bivalve Basterotia bonelliphila and amphipod Leucothoe bonelliae -- were new to science and deserved study of their evolutionary profiles.

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

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

A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah




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