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Meanings of bivalve in inglês

Used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)

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Examples for "bivalved"
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* The Pittosporum angustifolium we also recognised here, loaded with its singular orange-coloured bivalved fruit.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume...
Usage of bivalve in inglês
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Herbert ran to the beach and returned with two large bivalve shells.
The Mysterious Island
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As the weather becomes cooler, a thin, delicate bivalve decorates high-water mark.
Tropic Days
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The mirror speaks: you look like a floppy deshelled bivalve with cellulite.
The Irish Times
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They're part of the bivalve family which also includes oysters, cockles and scallops.
The Irish Times
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Geoffrey inquired in which wing of this unequal bivalve his host actually lived.
Kimono
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Achron-as-bird hopped closer and examined the bivalve shell the mother bird had offered.
Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World & Other Stories
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No spawning events of such dimensions have been reported upon before for any bivalve.
Pubmed
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Bacteria, such as E coli, are almost always present at some level in any bivalve.
The Guardian
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Filter-feeding bivalve molluscs are often contaminated by algal toxins.
Pubmed
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He specialized in scallops, a family of bivalve mollusks.
The new yorker
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The two parts of a bivalve shell are like thin saucers, concave inside, convex outside.
Let's Collect Rocks and Shells
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This is because it's the only bivalve that swims.
On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
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Captain Nemo was obviously familiar with this bivalve's existence.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
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This is the conformity of the bivalve mollusk.
The Whence and the Whither of Man / A Brief History of His Origi...
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I saw, as I got close to the water's edge, that it was a huge bivalve.
In the Eastern Seas
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There are three varieties, spiral, univalve, and bivalve.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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