| 单词 | bivalve |
| 释义 | bivalve (once / 14241 pages) nadj WORD FAMILY bivalve: bivalves+/valve: bivalve, valvelet, valves, valvular USAGE EXAMPLESTwo recent books chart the oyster’s resounding comeback and provide guidance to diners facing down an embarrassment of bivalves. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) The bivalves, which were of the Island Creek variety of the eastern oyster species, had been shipped from Duxbury, Mass., the day before. New York Times(Sep 04, 2016) People who typically don’t go for bivalves, though, might ask for seconds of these dressier ones. Washington Post(Sep 19, 2016) 1n marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together Syn|Hypo|Hyper lamellibranch, pelecypod clam burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness cocklecommon edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs oystermarine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters ark shellmarine bivalve mollusk having a heavy toothed shell with a deep boat-like inner surface blood clamred-blooded clam musselmarine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc. escallop, scallop, scollopedible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions piddockmarine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells Mya arenaria, long-neck clam, soft-shell clam, steamer, steamer claman edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe Mercenaria mercenaria, Venus mercenaria, hard clam, hard-shell clam, quahaug, quahog, round claman edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians geoducka large edible clam found burrowing deeply in sandy mud along the Pacific coast of North America; weighs up to six pounds; has siphons that can extend to several feet and cannot be withdrawn into the shell jackknife clam, knife-handle, razor clammarine clam having a long narrow curved thin shell Tridacna gigas, giant clama large clam inhabiting reefs in the southern Pacific and weighing up to 500 pounds Cardium edule, edible cocklecommon edible European cockle seed oystera young oyster especially of a size for transplantation blue point, bluepointsmall edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island Japanese oyster, Ostrea gigasa large oyster native to Japan and introduced along the Pacific coast of the United States; a candidate for introduction in Chesapeake Bay Virginia oystercommon edible oyster of Atlantic coast of North America Pinctada margaritifera, pearl oystertropical marine bivalve found chiefly off eastern Asia and Pacific coast of North America and Central America; a major source of pearls Anomia ephippium, saddle oysterthin-shelled bivalve having the right valve deeply notched Placuna placenta, capiz, window oyster, windowpane oystermarine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell marine mussel, mytilidmarine bivalve mollusk having a dark elongated shell; live attached to solid objects especially in intertidal zones freshwater clam, freshwater musselbivalve mollusk abundant in rivers of central United States Pecten irradians, bay scallopa small scallop inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats of the Atlantic coast of North America Pecten magellanicus, giant scallop, sea scallopa large scallop inhabiting deep waters of the Atlantic coast of North America shipworm, teredinidwormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells mollusc, mollusk, shellfish invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell 2adj used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) Syn|Ant bivalved lamellibranch, pelecypod, pelecypodous bivalve univalve used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc. single-shelledunivalve |
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