bivalve
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He also analyzed oxygen isotope levels in the bivalve shells to determine that the holdfasts lived in slightly warmer water than today, at the upper range of temperatures found in modern kelp forests.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2024
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
Mytilus, mit′i-lus, n. a genus of bivalves, or an individual bivalve belonging to it.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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Marine Biology - Introductory
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