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单词 bivalve
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bivalveadj.n.

Brit. /ˈbʌɪvalv/, U.S. /ˈbaɪˌvælv/
Etymology: < bi- comb. form 1a + valve n.1, < Latin valvae folds of a door, folding-doors.
A. adj.
1. Having two leaves or folding parts, as a shutter or door.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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