bivalve

Example Sentences

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He picks up a small, tubular, twisted white shell, the remnants of a marine bivalve that had burrowed into a log, making it home.

From Seattle Times

Thanks to their deft shucking, the crew behind the seafood bar lets us focus solely on the oysters’ flavor as we pluck the bivalves from their bed of ice and knock them back.

From Washington Post

While parts of the river are still “considered impaired” because of agricultural runoff, Sickmann says the Saint Croix’s “world class mussel population” is helping because these bivalves are living water purifiers.

From Scientific American

Only a few years ago, the clear, shallow waters of Mar Menor, a saltwater lagoon off eastern Spain that is Europe’s largest, hosted a robust population of the highly endangered fan mussel, a meter-long bivalve.

From Science Magazine

Yes, I adore the bivalves themselves — those sweet, saline nuggets plucked out of their blue-black shells.

From Seattle Times