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inequivalve
[in-ee-kwuh-valv]
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Word History and Origins
Origin of inequivalve1
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The Anatinidæ have thin, often inequivalve pearly shells.
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A bivalve is said to be equivalve when the two shells composing it are of the same size, inequivalve when they are not.
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For instance, Professor Hutton describes a certain shell as "thick, irregular, sharp ribbed, with the margin dentated or lobed, very inequivalve; upper valve opercular, compressed, wrinkled, with thick concentric laminae; lower valve cucullated, purple, white within, edged with purple or black; lateral margins denticulated; hinge generally attenuated, produced, pointed."
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