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Univalve   Listen
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Univalve  n.  (Zool.) A shell consisting of one valve only; a mollusk whose shell is composed of a single piece, as the snails and conchs. Note: Most univalves are spiral and are the shells of gastropods, but many belong to cephalopods and pteropods. A large number of univalves belonging to the gastropods are conical, cup-shaped, or shieldlike, as the limpets.





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"Univalve" Quotes from Famous Books



... selected a fresh-water polype or a coral, the members of what naturalists term the sub-kingdom Caelenterata would have grouped themselves around my type; had a snail been chosen, the inhabitants of all univalve and bivalve, land and water, shells, the lamp shells, the squids, and the sea-mat would have gradually linked themselves on to it as members of the same sub-kingdom of Mollusca; and finally, starting from man, I should have been ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley


Words linked to "Univalve" :   mollusc, cowry, slug, snail, Gasteropoda, zoological science, conch, class Gasteropoda, river limpet, class Gastropoda, bubble shell, freshwater limpet, Aplysia punctata, solenogaster, abalone, mollusk, sea slug, zoology, gastropod, cowrie, bivalve, Ancylus fluviatilis, aplacophoran, nudibranch, Gastropoda, seasnail, ear-shell, sea hare, single-shelled


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