bivalve
noun
any mollusk, as the oyster, clam, scallop, or mussel, of the class Bivalvia, having two shells hinged together, a soft body, and lamellate gills.
bivalvular
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a word derived from
bivalve.
Example Sentences
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I make it into the open air and walk west, past the murderous mannequins in the windows, past the bivalvular City Hall.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Well, after thinking a day or two, This doughty sucker imagined he knew About the best thing he could possibly do, To secure the bivalvular hermit.
From The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems by Various
Cove oysters came from Baltimore, of course, in round tins; they were introduced into Canada long before the square tin boxes that now come in winter from the same bivalvular city.
From In the Midst of Alarms by Robert Barr
By dehiscence the pericarp becomes divided into different pieces, or valves, the fruit being univalvular, bivalvular or multivalvular, &c., according as there are one, two or many valves.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
Sporangia sessile on a bristle-like receptacle within a cup-shaped or bivalvular involucre, the ring transverse and complete.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
