Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
univalve .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot. & Zoöl.) Same as
univalve , a.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany, zoology Having only one
valve .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But, according to Tümpel (p. 386), neither univalvular nor bivalve shells can be regarded as a real part of the goddess's cultural equipment.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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The Kachin men we met were all armed with the formidable dah or native sword, whose widened blade they protect in a univalvular sheath of wood.
AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895
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The Kachin men we met were all armed with the formidable _dah_ or native sword, whose widened blade they protect in a univalvular sheath of wood.
An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891
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"The bivalve nature of the shell doubtless arose," he says, "from the splitting on the median line of a primitive univalvular ancestor;" and he adds: "A parallel case is seen in the development of a bivalve shell in ancient crustaceans;" in both types of shells "the form is induced by the mechanical conditions of the case."
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Folliculus (dimin. from fllis, a bag) a follicle A univalvular pericarp, opening on one fide longitudinally, and having the feeds loofe in it.
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He refers to the attempts to associate the goddess of love with amulets of univalvular shells "in virtue of a certain peculiar and obscene symbolism". [
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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