Definition of Cardiidae

1. Noun. Somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardiidae

Cardamine
Cardamine bulbifera
Cardamine bulbosa
Cardamine diphylla
Cardamine douglasii
Cardamine pratensis
Cardamine rotundifolia
Carden's amputation
Cardia
Cardiff
Cardiffian
Cardiffians
Cardigan
Cardigan Welsh corgi
Cardiganshire
Cardiidae
Cardinal
Cardinal Bellarmine
Cardinal Nephew
Cardinal Newman
Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinalis cardinalis
Cardinals
Cardiobacterium
Cardiovirus
Cardium
Cardium edule

Literary usage of Cardiidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of Geologic History, with Especial Reference to North America: A by Bailey Willis, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"In the Ripley fauna on the other hand ammonoids and Inoceramus are relatively rare and the Ostreidae, Veneridae, cardiidae, and many types of gasteropoda, ..."

2. Publication by Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"I am, however, of opinion that the genus is more nearly related to the cardiidae. One species occurs in British Carboniferous rocks, in the Coal Measures ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"... cardiidae. It would be natural to expect that we should find this process of conversion still going on, and that we should be able to detect particular ..."

4. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"... siphons short; foot very large and bent: 200 species; cosmopolitan. Key to the genera of cardiidae here described: a, Shell with radial ribs 1. ..."

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