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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of the bivalve mollusks of the class Lamellibranchia, including the clams, scallops, and oysters. Also called pelecypod.
  2. adj. Of or relating to lamellibranchs.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having lamellate gills; pertaining to the Lamellibranchiata, or having their characters.
  2. n. One of the Lamellibranchiata, as any ordinary bivalve mollusk. Also lamellibranchiate.

Wiktionary

  1. n. any marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk, of the class Lamellibranchia; includes the clams, scallops and oysters

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) One of the Lamellibranchia (also called Pelecypoda). Also used adjectively.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together
  2. adj. bivalve.

Etymologies

  1. From New Latin Lāmellibranchia, class name : lamelli- + Latin branchia, gill; see branchia. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Other words for ‘lamellibranch’

  1. bivalved
  1. bivalve

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. lamellibranchiate
  2. pelecypod
  3. inequilateral
  4. teredinidæ
  1. mussel-band
  2. cerebropleural
  3. cypricardia
  4. endocardines
  1. endocephalous
  2. exocardines
  3. integropalliate
  4. trimyarian
  1. arcidæ
  2. Artemis
  3. bivalve
  4. heteromya
  1. inclusa
  2. limidæ
  3. macromere
  4. pholadidæ
  1. siphonata

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  • bilby Who are you calling lame? Sep 26, 2011

  • mollusque See clam. Nov 8, 2007

  • sionnach Usage example: The Lamellibranch of the infamous Borgia family was known for its practice of dispatching political rivals by serving them poisoned clams at dinner, their signature dish being scunghilli fiorentini, or clams florentine. Nov 8, 2007

  • seanahan Apparently this is also known as lamellibranchia. Nov 8, 2007

  • seanahan Finally, we've reached somewhere that means something. This is a class better known as Bivalvia. Nov 8, 2007

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