bivalve

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He dropped away from Fillmore's coat-button like an exhausted bivalve, and his small mouth opened feebly.

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  1. noun A mollusk, such as an oyster or a clam, that has a shell consisting of two hinged valves.
  2. adjective Having a shell consisting of two hinged valves.
  3. adjective Consisting of two similar separable parts.

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  • Vital moisture also escapes, so it can't be done too often or the bivalve will dry out. —  Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
  • Spermatozoan morphology of four species of bivalve (Heterodonta, Veneridae) from Taiwan. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • This freshwater bivalve is on the endangered list in Connecticut, along with the piping plover, tiger beetle and finback whale. —  News from www.rep-am.com
  • Following the aggressive invasion of the bivalve, Potamocorbula amurensis, in the San Francisco Bay-Delta in 1986, selenium contamination in the benthic food web increased. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Some people slather tartar sauces all over them, others opt for a little lemon juice to savor the essential bivalve. bloggers has three favorites, Kreme & Kone, Seafood Sam's and Capt. —  CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
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  1. = French bivalve, from Latin bi-, two-, + valva, door, in modern sense ‘valve.’
 

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