BIVALVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bivalve mean? 

• BIVALVE (noun)
  The noun BIVALVE has 1 sense:

1. marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together

  Familiarity information: BIVALVE used as a noun is very rare.

• BIVALVE (adjective)
  The adjective BIVALVE has 1 sense:

1. used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)

  Familiarity information: BIVALVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIVALVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bivalve; lamellibranch; pelecypod

Hypernyms ("bivalve" is a kind of...):

mollusc; mollusk; shellfish (invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bivalve"):

clam (burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness)

cockle (common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs)

oyster (marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters)

ark shell (marine bivalve mollusk having a heavy toothed shell with a deep boat-like inner surface)

blood clam (red-blooded clam)

mussel (marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc.)

escallop; scallop; scollop (edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions)

piddock (marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells)

Holonyms ("bivalve" is a member of...):

Bivalvia; class Bivalvia; class Lamellibranchia; class Pelecypoda; Lamellibranchia (oysters; clams; scallops; mussels)

Derivation:

bivalve (used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.))

• BIVALVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

bivalve; bivalved

Similar:

lamellibranch; pelecypod; pelecypodous (bivalve)

Domain category:

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

Antonym:

univalve (used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc.)

Derivation:

bivalve (marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together)