Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
lamellibranch .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia (also called Pelecypoda).
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- adjective zoology Having
lamellar gills ; belonging to thelamellibranchs . - noun zoology A
lamellibranch .
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Examples
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The fact that this one is lamellibranchiate in its formation, simply adds to its interest as being possibly of a different kind from any we read of in the records of science, but yet in no manner marring its authenticity.
Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922
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The fact that this one is lamellibranchiate in its formation, simply adds to its interest as being possibly of a different kind from any we read of in the records of science, but yet in no manner marring its authenticity.
Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872
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The fact that this one is lamellibranchiate in its formation, simply adds to its interest as being possibly of a different kind from any we read of in the records of science, but yet in no manner marring its authenticity.
Sketches New and Old, Part 3. Mark Twain 1872
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Thirty genera of gasteropods (150 species) and 150 species of lamellibranchiate bivalves in the Silurian!
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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But I have never seen this view suggested as adverse to the doctrine of progress, although much stress has been laid on the fact that the Silurian Brachiopoda, creatures of a lower grade, formerly discharged the functions of the existing lamellibranchiate bivalves, which are higher in the scale.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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