Used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)
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Herbert ran to the beach and returned with two large bivalve shells.
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As the weather becomes cooler, a thin, delicate bivalve decorates high-water mark.
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The mirror speaks: you look like a floppy deshelled bivalve with cellulite.
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They're part of the bivalve family which also includes oysters, cockles and scallops.
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Geoffrey inquired in which wing of this unequal bivalve his host actually lived.
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* The Pittosporum angustifolium we also recognised here, loaded with its singular orange-coloured bivalved fruit.