Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a hatchet-shaped foot; of or pertaining to the Pelecypoda; lamellibranchiate, as a mollusk.
- noun A bivalve mollusk; a lamellibranch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A marine or freshwater mollusk having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together; a member of the Pelecypoda.
- adjective same as
lamellibranchiate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of the Pelecypoda.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bivalve
- noun marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Pelecypoda, class name : Greek pelekus, ax + New Latin -poda, -pod.]
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Examples
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Fenton and Fenton 1937 describe pelecypod burrows and trails near Dawson Pass.
Glacier National Park Geology & Paleontology: Part 4 - Siyeh ReBecca Foster 2008
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Fenton and Fenton 1937 describe pelecypod burrows and trails near Dawson Pass.
Archive 2008-09-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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It may thus be told from the pelecypod mollusk, such as the clam, whose two valves are not far from equal in size, each being divided into unequal parts by a line dropped from the beak.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
chained_bear commented on the word pelecypod
"A mollusc of the class Pelecypoda (now usually called Bivalvia); a bivalve mollusc, a lamellibranch." (OED)
September 9, 2008