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• n  marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together
• a  used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)

• The introduction to poulet rti gently proclaims, "If you can't properly roast a damn chicken then you're one helpless, hopeless, sorry-ass bivalve in an apron.
• See that bivalve social climber.
• Since Sheridan wrote "An oyster may be crossed in love," no one need be surprised at certain experiments now being conducted with the bivalve by the New York State Conservation .

• pelecypod
• lamellibranch
• bivalved

• univalve

News & Articles

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• A Guide to Buying, Shucking, and Eating Clams
  With delicate razor clams gracing tasting menus at Maison Premiere and Atera , Wylie Dufresne rethinking chowder at Alder , and urban fish shacks and raw bars continuing to proliferate, it’s hard to imagine that the humble clam was ever more fashionable than it is now. In fact, it was: The native bivalve gained popularity in the early-twentieth century after New Yorkers depleted all the local ...
  June 17, 2013 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• Anthony Bourdain in Philadelphia citypaper.net
  (Anthony Bourdain calls the cook that can't roast a bird "one helpless, hopeless, sorry-ass bivalve in an apron."