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Definition of Bivalvia
1. Noun. Oysters; clams; scallops; mussels.
Group relationships: Mollusca, Phylum Mollusca
Member holonyms: Bivalve, Lamellibranch, Pelecypod, Spat, Myaceae, Order Myaceae, Family Tridacnidae, Tridacnidae, Cardiidae, Family Cardiidae, Family Ostreidae, Ostreidae, Family Pteriidae, Pteriidae, Anomiidae, Family Anomiidae, Genus Placuna, Placuna, Arcidae, Family Arcidae, Family Mytilidae, Mytilidae, Family Unionidae, Unionidae, Family Pectinidae, Pectinidae, Family Teredinidae, Teredinidae, Family Pholadidae, Pholadidae
Generic synonyms: Class
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bivalvia
Literary usage of Bivalvia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1882)
"cucurbita« [!], »pp. nn., Dalí, /. e. pp. 34-36, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean
Sea, 229-805 fath. bivalvia. ..."
2. Beyond Price: Pearls and Pearl-fishing : Origins to the Age of Discoveries by R. A. Donkin (1998)
"For our purpose, the most important Class within the Mollusca is the bivalvia,
a term also employed by Linnaeus and apparently first introduced by Filippo ..."
3. Beyond Price: Pearls and Pearl-fishing : Origins to the Age of Discoveries by R. A. Donkin (1998)
"For our purpose, the most important Class within the Mollusca is the bivalvia,
a term also employed by Linnaeus and apparently first introduced by Filippo ..."
4. Annals of Botany by Carl Dietrich Eberhard König, John Sims (1806)
"... bivalvia (those species of Lyer>podini» L, which bear their fructification in
the axils of the leaves. ... Sporangia subglobosa, bivalvia. «a. ..."