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MOLLUSCS Mussels or clams
LAMELLIBRANCHIATA A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc.
SCALP A bed of oysters or mussels.
SHUCKER One who shucks oysters or clams
CHOWDER A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.
BDELLOMORPHA An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams.
UNIO Any one of numerous species of fresh-water mussels belonging to Unio and many allied genera.
HYDRACHNID An aquatic mite of the genus Hydrachna. The hydrachnids, while young, are parasitic on fresh-water mussels.
SKIMMER Any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops.
FRESH-WATER Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.
INOCERAMUS An extinct genus of large, fossil, bivalve shells,allied to the mussels. The genus is characteristic of the Cretaceous period.
CLAMBAKE The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.
MOTHER-OF-PEARL The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
HETEROMYARIA A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.
SHELLFISH Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.
LITHODOMUS A genus of elongated bivalve shells, allied to the mussels, and remarkable for their ability to bore holes for shelter, in solid limestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus.
SPOUTFISH A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.
MALACOBDELLA A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.
ACEPHALA That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Fo...
WATER MITE ...young are parasites of fresh-water insects and mussels. Called also water tick, and water spider. ...
PEARL ...sks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance...
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