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pe·lec·y·pod

 (pə-lĕs′ə-pŏd′)
n.
See bivalve.
[From New Latin Pelecypoda, class name : Greek pelekus, axe + New Latin -poda, -pod.]
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pelecypod

(pɪˈlɛsɪˌpɒd)
n, adj
(Animals) another word for bivalve1, bivalve2
[C19: from Greek pelekus hatchet + -pod]
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bi•valve

(ˈbaɪˌvælv)

n.
1. any mollusk, as the oyster or mussel, of the class Bivalvia, having hinged lateral shells, a soft body enclosed by a mantle, sheetlike gills, and often a retractile foot.
adj.
2. having two shells, usu. united by a hinge.
3. having two similar parts hinged together.
[1670–80]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.pelecypod - marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged togetherpelecypod - marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together
bivalve, lamellibranch
mollusc, mollusk, shellfish - invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
Bivalvia, class Bivalvia, class Lamellibranchia, class Pelecypoda, Lamellibranchia - oysters; clams; scallops; mussels
clam - burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
cockle - common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
oyster - marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters
ark shell - marine bivalve mollusk having a heavy toothed shell with a deep boat-like inner surface
blood clam - red-blooded clam
mussel - marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc.
escallop, scollop, scallop - edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
piddock - marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells
Adj.1.pelecypod - bivalve
lamellibranch, pelecypodous
bivalve, bivalved - used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)
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In Pakistan occurrence of mollusks (Pelecypod) has been done by Khan and Dastagir (1972).
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Carbonate blocks found in muddy sediment off Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia: pieces of small authigenic carbonate mounds and vents related to hydrocarbon seeps?
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Late Holocene (Little Ice Age Interval) microvertebrates from Mackinac County, Michigan
Supraspecific groups of the pelecypod family Corbulidae.
Evidence from the fossil record of an antipredatory exaptation: conchiolin layers in corbulid bivalves
The basal part of the Cucullaea I Allomember is a horizon dominated by the pelecypod Cucullaea and darwinellid gastropods.
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Fine-structural localization of acid phosphatase in granulocytes of the pelecypod Mercenaria mercenaria.
Identification of unstimulated constitutive immunocytes, by enzyme histochemistry, in the coenenchyme of the octocoral Swiftia exserta

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