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Definition of Bivalves
1. bivalve [n] - See also: bivalve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bivalves
Literary usage of Bivalves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Conchology (1879)
"... 2 bivalves and 6 land shells); St. Vincent (27 univalves and 2 bivalves); ...
Nassau (68 univalves and 17 bivalves); Long Key Island (31 univalves and 3 ..."
2. The Dispersal of Shells: An Inquiry Into the Means of Dispersal Possessed by by Harry Wallis Kew (1893)
"TRANSPLANTATION OF bivalves. bivalves frequently lie with their shells slightly
apart, and, as is well known, quickly close upon objects which happen to be ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1845)
"This result was to be expected after the discovery of the siliceous nature of
the teeth of Eolis • but that the wood- and stone- burrowing bivalves should ..."
4. Organic Remains of a Former World: An Examination of the Mineralized Remains by James Parkinson (1811)
"bivalves, with equal valves. XCII. Pinna. A cuneiform, longitudinal bivalve, with
an acute base, gaping in the upper part: the hinge without a tooth, ..."
5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1851)
"The numbers of species of bivalves are high in the depths at a ... The bivalves
are also predominant at these great depths on more or less muddy bottoms, ..."
6. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"... bivalves REPRODUCTION in the Mollusca invariably takes place by means of eggs,
which, after being developed in the ovary of the female, are fertilised ..."
7. The Conchologist's Text-book: Embracing the Arrangements of Lamarck and by Thomas Brown (1835)
"HINGES OF THE LINNEAN GENERA OF bivalves. Fig. 1. Hinge of the Mga pictorum.
(Unio pictorum, Lamarck.) a. Primary tooth, c c. double teeth. Fig. 2. ..."
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