Traditional Chinese Meaning of bivalve

雙殼綱

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Definitions and Meaning of bivalve in English

Wordnet

bivalve (n)

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

Wordnet

bivalve (a)

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

Webster

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.

Webster

bivalve (a.)

Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.

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雙殼綱

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 => 二價的, bivalency => 二價性, biuret => 縮二脲, biu-mandara => 比烏-曼達拉, bituminous coal => 瀝青煤,