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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... |