Crossword-Solution: PELECYPODA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pelecypoda | n. pl. | Same as Lamellibranchia. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with PELECYPODA (5)
Freshwater Pelecypoda (_Anodonta_, _Unio_) spend the European winter buried deep in the muddy bottom of ponds and streams.
The /Pelecypoda/ have a more or less club-shaped foot, utilized, in the many families, for a great variety of purposes.
Its position, therefore, is between the /Gasteropoda/, which it resembles in its univalve shell and radula, and the /Pelecypoda/, to which it is related by the pointed foot and the absence of head and tentacles, and also by the symmetry which pervades its organization.
The loss of head, eyes, and tentacles, the substitution of labial palps, the extension and greater development of the gills, the modification of the foot and mantle, and the presence of certain special glands in the /Pelecypoda/ become mere matters of anatomical detail.
THE PELECYPOD SHELL As has been seen, the testaceous covering of the /Pelecypoda/ consists of two valves or shells which fit more or less closely and [pg417] firmly together and are placed one upon either side of the animal.