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Univalve

adjective
1.
Used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc..





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"Univalve" Quotes from Famous Books



... conch-shells, and with branches and fans of coral; and children had foreign curiosities and treasures of the sea for playthings. There was one imported shell that we did not value much, it was so abundant—the freckled univalve they called a "prop." Yet it had a mysterious interest for us little ones. We held it to our ears, and listened for the sound of the waves, which we were told that, it still kept, and always would keep. I remember the time when I thought that the ocean was really imprisoned ...
— A New England Girlhood • Lucy Larcom


Words linked to "Univalve" :   nudibranch, bivalve, Ancylus fluviatilis, class Gasteropoda, single-shelled, class Gastropoda, Aplysia punctata, solenogaster, conch, Gasteropoda, cowry, freshwater limpet, ear-shell, sea slug, Gastropoda, bubble shell, shellfish, cowrie, seasnail, zoology, zoological science, snail, river limpet, aplacophoran, slug, mollusk, sea hare, abalone, mollusc, physa


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