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Definition of Placuna placenta
1. Noun. Marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell.
Generic synonyms: Oyster
Group relationships: Genus Placuna, Placuna
Lexicographical Neighbors of Placuna Placenta
Literary usage of Placuna placenta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"Pearls of inferior value and size are also produced by Placuna placenta, many
species of Pinna, the great Tridacna, the common Ostrea edulis, ..."
2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"Placuna placenta, A nomia (Brug.).—Animal very much compressed, having the borders
of the mantle delicate, and furnished externally with a row of tentacular ..."
3. The Conchologist's Text-book: Embracing the Arrangements of Lamarck and by Thomas Brown (1835)
"... which fit, into two grooves in the opposite valve, held together by the ligament.
Placuna placenta. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1858)
"The Placuna placenta has no byssus, and can therefore be more readily transported.
Their removal from their native beds does not necessarily destroy the ..."
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