Crossword-Solution: INEQUIVALVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inequivalve | a. | Alt. of Inequivalvular |
We have 1 clue for the answer “INEQUIVALVE”
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| having the valves of the shell of a mollusk unequal in size | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with INEQUIVALVE (5)
For instance, Professor Hutton describes a certain shell as "thick, irregular, sharp ribbed, with the margin dentated or lobed, very inequivalve; upper valve opercular, compressed, wrinkled, with thick concentric laminae; lower valve cucullated, purple, white within, edged with purple or black; lateral margins denticulated; hinge generally attenuated, produced, pointed." When a shell is found that fully answers this description you will know it is an Auckland rock oyster.
Its obliquely oval shape, the long wing-like extension of the dorsal margin, the inequivalve shells, and the byssal sinus placed just below the forward extension of the hinge, are characteristics which will enable one to recognize the species at once.
Shell rather solid, a little irregular and triangular, inequivalve, more or less inequilateral, rounded and enlarged before, attenuated and prolonged behind; summits well marked, one projecting behind the other; hinge anomalous, formed by a large, conical, recurved cardinal tooth, with a cavity at its base for the reception of the tooth of the other valve; ligament very small; two muscular impressions little distant.
Shell white, regular, elongated, inequivalve, inequilateral; right or upper valve entirely flat, with a plait or fold; much produced towards the beak; hinge anomalous, formed by a transverse cardinal tooth on the right valve, entering into a corresponding cavity on the left; ligament internal, oblique, triangular, inserted in a pit rather deep, with edges a little projecting on each valve; two rounded muscular impressions.
Shell irregular, adherent, inequivalve, inequilateral; summits more or less twisted spirally, especially in the lower valve; some from left to right, others from right to left; hinge dissimilar, large, formed by one lamellous, arched, sub-crenulated, post-cardinal tooth, articulating into a furrow of the same form; exterior, post-apicial, slightly inserted; two large and rather distant muscular impressions.