Now the close and cautious bivalve no more thrives in a blue grass country than he possesses the ability to walk up stairs, or make a starting-price book.
And above all, the bivalves should be opened on the deep shell, so as to conserve some of the juice; for it is advisable to get as much of the bivalve as we can for the money.
Open and beard two dozen, and cut each bivalve in half.
And in one's own house, unless there be an adept at oyster-opening present, the simplest way to treat the bivalveis the following.
The instance referred to is that presented by bivalve shell-fish.
Bivalve shell-fish are creatures belonging to the oyster, scallop, and cockle group, i.
Among the bivalve mollusca, no form marks the Cretaceous era in Europe, America, and India in a more striking manner than the extinct genus Inoceramus (Catillus of Lam.
In Worcestershire and Warwickshire in sandstone belonging to the uppermost part of the Keuper the bivalve crustacean Estheria minuta occurs.
At the same time, some of the accompanying bivalve shells, echinoderms, and zoophytes, are specifically identical with fossils of the true Cretaceous series.
Some are of opinion that the two plates have been the gizzard of a cephalopod; others, that it may have formed a bivalve operculum of the same.
Almost all bivalve shells, or those of acephalous mollusca, are marine, about sixteen only out of 140 genera being fresh-water.
The predominance of bivalve mollusca of this peculiar class has caused the Silurian period to be sometimes styled "the age of brachiopods.
Among the fossils very common in fresh-water deposits are the shells of Cypris, a minute bivalve crustaceous animal.
The singular form of their bills is also of service to them in opening such bivalve shell-fish as come in their way.
Bivalve shells are made to open and shut, but on what a number of patterns is the hinge constructed, from the long row of neatly interlocking teeth in a Nucula to the simple ligament of a Mussel!
One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
A bivalveshell in which the valves are strongly convex.
Any one of several bivalveshells which bore in wood, as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga.
Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the state when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.
An extensive tribe of bivalve mollusks of which the genusVenus is the type.
At Hill's mill and at Nugent's quarries some layers are crowded with a characteristic fossil--a plump bivalve shell as large as a walnut, which goes by the name of Pentamerus Oblongus.
The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and otherbivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp.
Defn: A genus of bivalve mollusks, including the common long, or soft-shelled, clam.
Any one of several species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Aspergillum, or Brechites.
Defn: Any one of many species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Mytilus, and related genera, of the family Mytidæ.
Defn: A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc.
Defn: Any larval gastropod or bivalvemollusk in the state when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.
Defn: Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava.
A special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells.
Defn: A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.
Defn: A genus of small marine bivalve shells, having a pearly interior.
Defn: Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pholas, or family Pholadidæ.
Defn: Situated above the branchiæ; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.
Defn: A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal.
A bivalve shell (Anomia glabra) of the Atlantic coast; -- called also jingle shell and silver shell.
This doubling of the single median foot of the bivalve may be an artistic necessity for the sake of balance, or perhaps represents both foot and siphon at the same end.
One is the long native plant; the other, that transplanted from Chesapeake Bay: this bivalve is rounded in form, and the most prized of the two.
Notwithstanding its faults, however, the bivalve laryngeal speculum accomplished somewhat of the purpose intended.
His next thought was a small bivalve speculum, that is to say, two portions of tubes cut longitudinally and fastened together in such a way that the ends could be forced apart.
B, Cypris-larva with a bivalve shell and just before becoming attached (represented feet upwards for comparison with E, where it is attached).
It may assume the form of a bivalve shell entirely enclosing the body and limbs, as in many Phyllopoda (fig.
The adductor muscles of bivalve molluscs and crustaceans are, he shows plainly, the necessary consequence of the bivalvular condition.
In his paper on the hinge of Pelecypod molluscs and its development, he has pointed out a number of the particular ways in which the dynamics of the environment may act on the characters of the hinge and shell of bivalve molluscs.
Several American naturalists have written on these Bivalve testacea; and there is, probably, no other country so rich in beautiful and manifold productions of this kind.
The first includes genera that you will scarcely expect to find among the bivalve shells.
Notwithstanding the accessory pieces of the hinge, Pholas is placed among bivalve shells, the essential character of which is to have two valves united by a hinge.
Spondylus can scarcely be mistaken from any other bivalve shell.
Umbo is the swelling part near the beak of bivalve shells; the same as boss.
The beaks are the most pointed parts of the bivalve shell (Plate 3, c.
I have already pointed out to you the impressions of those muscles within bivalve shells.
Pray show me somebivalve shells," said Charles; "I want to know their forms.
I fear," said Charles, "that this new division will be rather difficult, for my father tells me that we must pay particular attention to the hinges of bivalve shells.
Each bivalve is a lottery ticket; it may contain a gem worthy of place in a monarch's crown, or be a seed pearl with a mercantile value of only a few rupees.
The native who obtains a few dozen seeks shelter under the first mustard-tree, and with dull-edged knife, dissects each bivalve with a thoroughness permitting nothing to escape his eye.
But this gratitude of the Crustacean towards a sympathetic bivalve is merely a hypothesis; we do not exactly know what passes in the intimacy of these two widely-differing natures.
The bivalve is asleep with his shell ajar, not suspecting the plot which is being formed against him.
They now walked on, and Agnes picked up the half of another bivalve shell, which her mother told her was called Mactra, or the Kneading Trough, from some fancied resemblance in the shape of the shell to that utensil.
The best known examples of this are the little "mussel-crabs" (Pinnotheridae) which live within the shells of mussels and other bivalve mollusca and probably share the food of their hosts.
The marine deposits are organically formed limestones, in which foraminifera and large bivalve mollusca play a leading part, marls and sandstones; dolomite and oolitic and pisolitic limestones are also known.
The most remarkable circumstance was, that the shining littlebivalve cyamium, which was represented by a solitary specimen in the second parcel, formed here at least three-fifths of the whole.
Mollusks vary in size from all but microscopic minuteness to a bivalve weighing 500 pounds or a squid half as big as a right whale.
Pelecypoda, the Mussels--mollusks inclosed in a bivalve shell fastened by a muscular hinge, the adjacent part of the valves being generally more or less toothed; the foot is as a rule roughly comparable to the shape of an ax head.
The bivalve shells, instead of growing on the right and left sides of the animal, as in bivalve mollusks, cover its back and front, and the head parts are at the gape of the valves.
AR'CA, a genus ofbivalve molluscs, family Arcadae, whose shells are known as ark-shells.
A bivalve is said to be equivalve when the two shells composing it are of the same size, inequivalve when they are not.
They carved wood most skilfully with chisels made of bivalve shells, or stone adzes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bivalve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
