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Marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together
Answer for the clue "Marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together ", 9 letters:
pelecypod
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context zoology English) Any of the Pelecypoda.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. bivalve [syn: lamellibranch , pelecypodous ] n. marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together [syn: bivalve , lamellibranch ]
Usage examples of pelecypod.
These shells offered only a rough guide to this world, since the pelecypods as a class had diversified early and evolved thereafter quite conservatively.