单词 | bivalve |
释义 | bivalveadj.n. A. adj. 1. Having two leaves or folding parts, as a shutter or door. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [adjective] leaved1560 valved1676 bivalve1677 hinge-bound1842 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [adjective] > having shutters > type of shutter steel-lineda1400 bivalve1677 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 271 Great bivalve wooden Windows. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. at Speculum Webber's magnifying bivalve ear-speculum. 1908 Practitioner Aug. 284 There was no appreciable difference obtained in the results by using a bivalve speculum in order to avoid contact with the external meatus. 2. Zoology. Having two shells united by a hinge. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a hard protective covering > having a shell > having specific number or type of shell bivalve1661 bivalvular1677 bivalvous1696 bivalved1755 inequivalve1777 inequivalved1816 inequivalvular1828 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A7v Fishes, which are..bivalve, as the Chama, oister, pectines. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 123 Several small bivalve shells. 1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. i. 33 The ligament which holds together the shells of the bivalve mollusca. 3. Botany. (A seed vessel) Having two valves. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [adjective] > having or between divisions or sections bivalve1737 valved?1768 trivalvular1785 multivalve1793 univalvular1793 univalved1823 bivalvular1830 intervalvular1830 bivalved1852 1737 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 3) at Chelidonium majus The Flowers..are succeeded by many bivalve Pods. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvi. 197 The capsule bivalve. B. n. 1. plural. Folding-doors. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door hall-doorc1275 falling doorc1300 stable doorc1330 vice-door1354 hecka1400 lodge-doorc1400 street door1465 gate-doora1500 portal1516 backdoor1530 portal door1532 side door1535 by-door1542 outer door1548 postern door1551 house door1565 fore-door1581 way-door1597 leaf door1600 folding door1611 clap-door1625 balcony-door1635 out-door1646 anteportc1660 screen door1668 frontish-door1703 posticum1704 side entrance1724 sash-door1726 Venetian door1731 oak1780 jib-door1800 trellis?c1800 sporting door1824 ledge-door1825 through door1827 bivalves1832 swing-door1833 tradesmen's entrance1838 ledged door1851 tradesmen's door?1851 fire door1876 storm door1878 shoji1880 fire door1889 Dutch door1890 patio door1900 stable door1900 ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901 suicide door1925 louvre door1953 1832 W. Gell Pompeiana I. ii. 22 Doors seem to have been called bivalves where only formed of two folds. 2. Zoology. A molluscous animal having a shell consisting of two halves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, so as to open and shut like a book: such as the oyster, mussel, etc. Also the shell of such animal. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves cockOE cockle1311 conch?1527 palour1589 conchyle1610 bivalvular1677 bivalve1684 nut-mussel1705 concha1755 cuckolda1757 Acephala1802 pullet1803 ciliograde1835 conchifer1835 acephalan1840 acephal1845 bivalvian1863 pelecypod1875 tea-clam1883 steamer clam1909 1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 507 Distinction of shells into Univalves Bivalves and Turbinated. 1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 230 Four..species, like the sea bivalve. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §876 Lamellibranchiata..To this group belong all ordinary bivalves. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind viii. 192 The refuse-mounds consist of oysters, mussels, and other bivalves. Categories » 3. Botany. A bivalve capsule or seed-vessel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1661 |
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