Bivalve - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bivalveBivalved
Having two valves as the oyster and some seed pods bivalve...
Clam
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds especially those that are edible as the long clam Mya arenaria the quahog or round clam Venus mercenaria the sea clam or hen clam Spisula solidissima and other species of the United States The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas a huge East Indian bivalve...
Pallial
Of or pertaining to a mantle especially to the mantle of mollusks produced by the mantle as the pallial line or impression which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell See Illust of Bivalve...
Bears paw
A large bivalve shell of the East Indies Hippopus maculatus often used as an ornament...
Bimuscular
Having two adductor muscles as a bivalve mollusk...
Bivalve
A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface as in the clam or by one as in the oyster See Mollusca...
Bivalvous
Bivalvular...
Bojanus organ
A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca serving in part as a kidney...
Brachiopoda
A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell often attached by a fleshy peduncle...
Cardiidae
a natural family of somewhat heart shaped sand burrowing bivalve mollusks...
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