Brazilian Portugese Meaning of bivalve
Bivalve
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Definitions and Meaning of bivalve in English
bivalve (n)
marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together
bivalve (a)
used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)
bivalve (n.)
A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.
A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.
bivalve (a.)
Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.
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Bivalve
marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together, used of mollusks having two shells (as clams e
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bivalent => Bivalente, bivalency => ambivalência, biuret => Biuret, biu-mandara => biu-mandara, bituminous coal => carvão betuminoso,
