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    BIVALVIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Oysters; clams; scallops; musselsplay

    Synonyms:

    Bivalvia; class Bivalvia; class Lamellibranchia; class Pelecypoda; Lamellibranchia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

    class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

    Meronyms (members of "Bivalvia"):

    family Pholadidae; Pholadidae (a family of Bivalvia)

    family Teredinidae; Teredinidae (shipworms)

    family Pectinidae; Pectinidae (scallops)

    family Unionidae; Unionidae (freshwater mussels found worldwide)

    family Mytilidae; Mytilidae (marine mussels)

    Arcidae; family Arcidae (ark shells)

    genus Placuna; Placuna (windowpane oysters)

    Anomiidae; family Anomiidae (saddle oysters)

    family Pteriidae; Pteriidae (pearl oysters)

    family Ostreidae; Ostreidae (oysters)

    Cardiidae; family Cardiidae (somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks)

    family Tridacnidae; Tridacnidae (large marine hard-shell clams)

    Myaceae; order Myaceae (clams)

    spat (a young oyster or other bivalve)

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

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

    Mollusca; phylum Mollusca (gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons)

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