bivalve

"My worthy Ned," I answered, "to the poet, a pearl is a tear of the sea; to the Orientals, it is a drop of dew solidified; to the ladies, it is a jewel of an oblong shape, of a brilliancy of mother-of-pearl substance, which they wear on their fingers, their necks, or their ears; for the chemist it is a mixture of phosphate and carbonate of lime, with a little gelatine; and lastly, for naturalists, it is simply a morbid secretion of the organ that produces the mother-of-pearl amongst certain bivalves."

On the leaves, also, various patelliform shells, Trochi, uncovered molluscs, and some bivalves are attached.

But did you ever notice any one try to open the terrestrial bivalve with a typewriter?

He had found an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus, and, more than this, he had hunted down and secured, with Jupiter's assistance, a scarabæus which he believed to be totally new, but in respect to which he wished to have my opinion on the morrow.

These studies mentioned neither the term 'sclerochronology' nor 'sclerochemistry', because monitoring programmes (e.g., Mussel Watch) normally use only the soft tissues of bivalves.

Suspension-feeding marine bivalves ingest microalgae, bacteria, and detritus readily from the surrounding environment.

An immunohistochemical study of the subepidermal connective tissue in the adult molluscan integument showed that the ECM is similar in gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods, but differs from that of vertebrate dermis.

Padroes de abundancia, riqueza e diversidade de moluscos bivalves na plataforma continental ao largo de Ubatuba, Sao Paulo, Brasil: uma comparajao metodologica.

Brown and Richardson (1988) examined the effect of shell size and the spatial density of bivalves (mussels and oysters) on the foraging behavior of S.

The bivalve declines are in contrast to the previous three decades (1950-80), when the combined landings of the same bivalves were much higher and the trend in each of their annual landings was nearly level, decade by decade.