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CLASS LAMELLIBRANCHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does class Lamellibranchia mean? 

CLASS LAMELLIBRANCHIA (noun)
  The noun CLASS LAMELLIBRANCHIA has 1 sense:

1. oysters; clams; scallops; musselsplay

  Familiarity information: CLASS LAMELLIBRANCHIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CLASS LAMELLIBRANCHIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Oysters; clams; scallops; mussels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bivalvia; class Bivalvia; class Lamellibranchia; class Pelecypoda; Lamellibranchia

Hypernyms ("class Lamellibranchia" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "class Lamellibranchia"):

Anomiidae; family Anomiidae (saddle oysters)

family Pholadidae; Pholadidae (a family of Bivalvia)

family Teredinidae; Teredinidae (shipworms)

family Pectinidae; Pectinidae (scallops)

family Unionidae; Unionidae (freshwater mussels found worldwide)

family Mytilidae; Mytilidae (marine mussels)

Arcidae; family Arcidae (ark shells)

genus Placuna; Placuna (windowpane oysters)

family Pteriidae; Pteriidae (pearl oysters)

family Ostreidae; Ostreidae (oysters)

Cardiidae; family Cardiidae (somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks)

family Tridacnidae; Tridacnidae (large marine hard-shell clams)

Myaceae; order Myaceae (clams)

spat (a young oyster or other bivalve)

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

Holonyms ("class Lamellibranchia" is a member of...):

Mollusca; phylum Mollusca (gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons)


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