bivalve

bivalve is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.
2. noun. A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.
3. adjective. Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.
4. noun. marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together

   Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypod

5. adjective. used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)

   Synonyms: bivalved

Synonyms

lamellibranch, pelecypod, bivalved

Common word forms

bivalved, bivalves

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