Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
equivalve .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Same as
equivalve orequivalved .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology
equivalve
Etymologies
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equi- + valvular
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Examples
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This is remarkable as a case of acquired and inherited characteristics finding very different expression in the two valves of a group belonging to a class typically equivalvular.
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These various genera, though ostreiform in the adult, are equivalvular and of totally different form in the free young.
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