class Bivalvia

class Bivalvia
noun
oysters; clams; scallops; mussels
Hypernyms: ↑class
Member Holonyms: ↑Mollusca, ↑phylum Mollusca
Member Meronyms:

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  • Bivalvia — noun oysters; clams; scallops; mussels • Syn: ↑class Bivalvia, ↑Lamellibranchia, ↑class Lamellibranchia, ↑class Pelecypoda • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • class Lamellibranchia — noun oysters; clams; scallops; mussels • Syn: ↑Bivalvia, ↑class Bivalvia, ↑Lamellibranchia, ↑class Pelecypoda • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • class Pelecypoda — noun oysters; clams; scallops; mussels • Syn: ↑Bivalvia, ↑class Bivalvia, ↑Lamellibranchia, ↑class Lamellibranchia • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • Bivalvia — Lamellibranchia La*mel li*bran chi*a, Lamellibranchiata La*mel li*bran chi*a ta, n. pl. [NL. See {lamella}, and {Branchia}, {Branchiate}.] (Zo[ o]l.) An earlier name for the class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bivalve — bivalvular /buy val vyeuh leuhr/, adj. /buy valv /, n. 1. Also called lamellibranch. Zool. any mollusk, as the oyster, clam, scallop, or mussel, of the class Bivalvia, having two shells hinged together, a soft body, and lamellate gills. adj. 2.… …   Universalium

  • mollusk — molluskan, molluscan /meuh lus keuhn/, adj., n. mollusklike, adj. /mol euhsk/, n. any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body,… …   Universalium

  • Taxonomy of commonly fossilised invertebrates — Although the phylogenetic classification of sub vertebrate animals (both extinct and extant) remains a work in progress, the following taxonomy attempts to be useful by combining both traditional (old) and new (21st century) paleozoological… …   Wikipedia

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