Crossword-Solution: BIVALVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
| Bivalve | n. | 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. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “BIVALVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| WITH hinged double shell | 1 answer |
| Shellfish such as an oyster or mussel having a pair of hinged shells | 1 answer |
| Oyster for example | 1 answer |
| OSTRACODA shell | 1 answer |
| Mussel or clam. | 1 answer |
| Clam or mussel | 1 answer |
| Clam, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Cockle or mussel | 1 answer |
| oyster e g | 2 answers |
| Oyster, e.g. | 2 answers |
| MOLLUSC with hinged double shell | 2 answers |
| It might be shucked | 2 answers |
| Clam, for one | 2 answers |
| Clam or oyster | 2 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN pipi | 3 answers |
| Mussel. | 5 answers |
| cockle | 5 answers |
| Oyster ___ | 9 answers |
| A SMOOTH LUSTROUS ROUND STRUCTURE INSIDE THE SHELL OF A CLAM OR OYSTER | 10 answers |
| CLAM PART | 10 answers |
| Scallop | 14 answers |
| CLAM up | 14 answers |
| mollusc | 26 answers |
| CLAM ___ | 26 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BIVALVE (5)
Captain Nemo was evidently acquainted with the existence of this bivalve, and seemed to have a particular motive in verifying the actual state of this tridacne.
See Acephal.] (Zo”l.) That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; Ð so called because they have no evident head.
Had that grain of sand not chanced to wash in between the shells of the bivalve, two living breathing beings with all their potentialities for good and for evil would not have been blotted out from among their fellows.
The live whelk (as you may see for yourself when the tide is out) burrows in the sand in chase of hapless bivalve shells, whom he bores through with his sharp tongue (always, cunning fellow, close to the hinge, where the fish is), and then sucks out their life.
The little bivalve, however, finding itself left by the tide, has wisely shut up its siphons, and, by means of its foot and its edges, buried itself in a comfortable bath of cool wet sand, till the sea shall come back, and make it safe to crawl and lounge about on the surface, smoking the sea-water instead of tobacco.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1959–2017).