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CLASS BIVALVIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Oysters; clams; scallops; mussels
Synonyms:
Bivalvia; class Bivalvia; class Lamellibranchia; class Pelecypoda; Lamellibranchia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("class Bivalvia" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "class 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 ("class Bivalvia" is a member of...):
Mollusca; phylum Mollusca (gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons)
