Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having two valves. Also
bivalvous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.
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- adjective Having two
valves .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)
Etymologies
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Examples
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She did the slightest double take when she saw you in the bivalved cast but quickly recovered.
Handle with Care JODI PICOULT 2009
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Four months after you were put in the spica cast, it was bivalved.
Handle with Care JODI PICOULT 2009
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Ostracods are small crustaceans enclosed in a bivalved carapace.
Crustacea 2008
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Their bodies are completely enclosed in a calcified, bivalved carapace which is hinged dorsally.
Crustacea 2008
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Of the rest, some are bivalved and some univalved; and by ‘bivalves’ I mean such as are enclosed within two shells, and by
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For on their dorsal surface they have a shell, and by the under surface they attach themselves to the rocks, and so after a manner become bivalved, the rock representing the second valve.
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The flowers are variable in color, and produced in loose clusters; the seeds are produced in long, flattened, or cylindrical, bivalved pods, and vary, in
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The seed, reniform in shape, is bivalved, and constitutes about two-thirds of the bulk of the entire plum, and the inner kernel two-thirds the bulk of the seed.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 Various
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The _C. sophera_, L., is characterized by 10 stamens, all fertile and a smooth, linear, bivalved pod full of seeds separated by false partitions.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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* The Pittosporum angustifolium we also recognised here, loaded with its singular orange-coloured bivalved fruit.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823
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