bivalve

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This marks only the second bivalve species ever documented entirely through non-invasive micro-CT scanning.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

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

Half′-roy′al, a special kind of millboard or pasteboard; Half′-shell, one-half of a bivalve, as in oysters 'on the half-shell.'—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various