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Univalve

adjective

Used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc..

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"Univalve" Quotes from Famous Books

... with a great number of other animals into the sub-kingdom 'Protozoa'; if I had selected a fresh-water polype or a coral, the members of what naturalists term the sub-kingdom 'Coelenterata', 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 compelled to admit first, the ape, ...

— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

... valley from north to south. About three miles below the springs, on the right bank of the river, is a nearly perpendicular limestone rock, presenting a uniformly unbroken surface, twenty to forty feet high, containing very great numbers of a large univalve shell; which appears to belong to ...

— The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California • Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont

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