Definition of Bivalvia

1. Noun. Oysters; clams; scallops; mussels.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Bivalvia

Bisquick
Bissau
BitTorrent
Bithynia
Bitis
Bitis arietans
Bitis gabonica
Bitola
Bitot
Bittacidae
Bittner's milk factor
Bittner agent
Bittner virus
Biu-Mandara
Bivalvia (current term)
Bizantian
Bizantine
Bizet
Bizzozero's corpuscle
Bizzozero's red cells
Bière
Bjerrum's scotoma
Bjerrum's sign
Bjerrum screen
Bjork-Shiley valve
Bjornstad's syndrome
Bk
Bksp
Blaberus

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. ..."

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