"Bivalve" is a word in ENGLISH
A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates
or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is
usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed
by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner
surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.
Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the
oyster and certain seed vessels.
A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two
parts or valves.
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Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.
Read the complete definitionHaving two valves.
Read the complete definitionThe siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box …
Read the complete definitionA pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the …
Read the complete definitionA valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting …
Read the complete definitionAn elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single …
Read the complete definitionMany-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons.
Read the complete definitionOne of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
Read the complete definitionAn oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either …
Read the complete definitionOne of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
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