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Multivalvular   Listen
adjective
Multivalvular, Multivalve  adj.  
1.
Having many valves.
2.
(Zool.) Many-valved; having more than two valves; said of certain shells, as the chitons.





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"Multivalvular" Quotes from Famous Books



... mussel, and the star-fish; and in the beds of trachytic rock, deposited in such order that one might fancy they had been placed there by a careful and tasty housewife, are layers of the most curious shells, univalve, bivalve, sublivalve and multivalve, madrepors, and shapeless remnants of creatures now no longer ...
— Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches • Henri de Crignelle


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