Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See lamellibranch.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a hatchet-shaped foot; of or pertaining to the Pelecypoda; lamellibranchiate, as a mollusk.
- n. A bivalve mollusk; a lamellibranch.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology Any of the Pelecypoda.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A marine or freshwater mollusk having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together; a member of the Pelecypoda.
- adj. same as lamellibranchiate.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. bivalve.
- n. marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together
Etymologies
- From New Latin Pelecypoda, class name : Greek pelekus, ax + New Latin -poda, -pod. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Fenton and Fenton 1937 describe pelecypod burrows and trails near Dawson Pass.”
Glacier National Park Geology & Paleontology: Part 4 - Siyeh
“It may thus be told from the pelecypod mollusk, such as the clam, whose two valves are not far from equal in size, each being divided into unequal parts by a line dropped from the beak.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pelecypod’.
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molluscs
very comprehensive list
of molluscs,who does not like
calamari? hmm yum
molluscigerous
100,000 species just in molluscsabalone, ammonite, argonaut, ataata, belon, bivalve, blackhead, bluepoint, brachiopod, buckie, byssal, byssus and 271 more...
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Not Dinosaurs
A temporary place to store all those annoying prehistoric animals that refuse to correlate to my manner of (dis)organization. Gah!
See also "Words of Dinosaurology," "Dinosaurs," "Pter...deltasaurus, champsosaur, discosauriscus, diplocaulus, dunkleosteus, dimetrodon, dragonfly, echinoderm, edaphosaurus, eosuchian, eotitanosuchid, equisetum and 185 more...
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Words that make you go hmmmm...
Interesting words you probably won't hear in your day-to-day.
maxwell, mooncalf, quagga, glaikit, musquash, lingam, haruspex, qindarka, chthonic, ipomoea, azimuthal, valuta and 304 more...
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Mollusks
"Snaily, clammy, squidy" has evolved into a vehicle for linking to mollusk quotations, so I've started this list for vernacular names of mollusks.
clam, snail, slug, squid, octopus, nautilus, conch, chank, whelk, mussel, oyster, scallop and 221 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "A mollusc of the class Pelecypoda (now usually called Bivalvia); a bivalve mollusc, a lamellibranch." (OED) Sep 8, 2008