bivalve
bahy valv
- 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 .