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    BIVALVE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged togetherplay

    Synonyms:

    bivalve; lamellibranch; pelecypod

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("bivalve" is a kind of...):

    mollusc; mollusk; shellfish (invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bivalve"):

    clam (burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness)

    cockle (common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs)

    oyster (marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters)

    ark shell (marine bivalve mollusk having a heavy toothed shell with a deep boat-like inner surface)

    blood clam (red-blooded clam)

    mussel (marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc.)

    escallop; scallop; scollop (edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions)

    piddock (marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells)

    Holonyms ("bivalve" is a member of...):

    Bivalvia; class Bivalvia; class Lamellibranchia; class Pelecypoda; Lamellibranchia (oysters; clams; scallops; mussels)

    Derivation:

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

     II. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)play

    Synonyms:

    bivalve; bivalved

    Classified under:

    Adjectives

    Similar:

    lamellibranch; pelecypod; pelecypodous (bivalve)

    Domain category:

    zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

    Antonym:

    univalve (used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc.)

    Derivation:

    bivalve (marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together)

     III. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb bivalve

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