bi·valve

(bī′vălv′)

Any of numerous freshwater and marine mollusks of the class Bivalvia, having a shell consisting of two hinged valves connected by a ligament, and including the clams, mussels, oysters, and scallops. Also called lamellibranch, pelecypod.

adj.

1. Having a shell consisting of two hinged valves.

2. Consisting of two similar separable parts.

bi′valved′ adj.

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Adj.

bivalved - used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)

bivalve

zoological science, zoology - the branch of biology that studies animals

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Bivalved shells may serve as sensitive indicators of rapid episodic sediment accumulation (Allen 1992).

Taphonomic Signatures on Some Intertidal Molluscan Shells from Tarut Bay (Arabian Gulf Saudi Arabia)

Climate records from a bivalved Methuselah (Arctica islandica, Mollusca; Iceland).

Hydrographic changes in Nares Strait (Canadian Arctic Archipelago) in recent decades based on [[delta].sup.18]O profiles of bivalve shells

Traces and trends in predation, with special reference to bivalved animals.

Origin and expansion of foliated microstructure in pteriomorph bivalves

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