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Definition of bivalve:
- 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.
- A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.
- Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.
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The oysters are distributed through various markets, but the greatest customer is London, whither there come every year fifty millions of the dainty bivalve.
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No more the bivalve treads the sands In freedom's rapture, free from guilt: It follows now the harsh commands Of Morgiman and Rockabilt.
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And I felt that I opened my eyes as an oyster does his bivalve domicile at high water.