These bivalve mollusks are similar in dimensions to the edible mussel.    From LearnThat.org.  [yourdictionary.com]

The oyster is described as a bivalve shell-fish, having the valves generally unequal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

A bivalve is a mollusk with 2 separate shells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bivalve news] Reference

A heart-shaped bivalve or a garden flower. colporteur.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 January 28 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference

Name that bivalve: Extensive oyster menus can be daunting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oysters Aw, Shucks] Reference

Herbert ran to the beach and returned with two large bivalve shells.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Island] Reference

In addition, there were some large specimens of a fresh water bivalve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Archaeozoology Report 2] Reference

They have a bivalve shell which makes them look something like a small mussel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amateur Fish Culture] Reference

Many rare plants and immense quantities of uni - and bivalve shells are found at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Freshwater bivalve eggs are larger and have more yolk than their marine counterparts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mollusca] Reference

For several years I sought in vain a living specimen of a flattened elongated bivalve.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Tropic Isle] Reference

Excavations this year yielded a freshwater bivalve with holes were drilled in the shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Archaeozoology Report 2] Reference

For example, these bivalve shells, probably arks (Arcidae), each had a hole thru its umbo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

The modest bivalve was so small that the boy in disgust was about to pitch it back into the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference

As I lay with my head on her belly, I caught the aroma of that little bivalve between her thighs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rude Awakening]

Pacific Coast oysters fail in size, flavor and cooking, when compared with the luscious bivalve of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference

In fact the clam is the only bivalve of this part of the coast that has a distinctive and good flavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference

Long-term indirect effects of mechanical cockle-dredging on intertidal bivalve stocks in the Wadden Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 4] Reference

"You must excuse me," answered the bivalve, "but I have been blind from birth, and missed the whole show.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fables For The Times] Reference

The decorations were very profuse, consisting of bivalve shells, skulls of small animals, and other bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference

He celebrated the bivalve in his pages by picture and by word, and his young men made the best of the incident.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

He had found an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus; and, more than this, he had hunted down and secured, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short-story] Reference

These are a mixture of the bivalve with Tabasco sauce and vinegar, and they are said to be excellent appetizers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference

Other aquaculture practices include cockle culture and exploitation of the finfish, bivalve, and crab fisheries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunda Shelf mangroves] Reference

Since prehistory, unmodified shells of this bivalve have also been used as scoops or containers to hold cosmetics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Nubian Cemetery Week 4] Reference

On the 7th Wordie and Worsley found some small pebbles, a piece of moss, a perfect bivalve shell, and some dust on.    From Wordnik.com.  [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference

Lying alone upon the granite rock, it took up a large space, and never had the professor even heard of such a huge bivalve.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean] Reference

Although bivalve species with free-swimming larvae are abundant in marine environments, they are much less common in freshwater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mollusca] Reference

A geoduck (pronounced "gooey-duck") is a giant clam, the world's largest burrowing bivalve, often attaining a weight of ten pounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gooey Duck Song] Reference

"Oysters, stop seducing bivalve-curious humans by fluttering your filters to any guy looking to shuck you all night long!" he exclaims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colbert On Oyster Herpes: 'Who's F--king Our Oysters?' (VIDEO)] Reference

Hellenistic representation of the goddess emerging from a bivalve was found in Southern Russia (Minns, "Scythians and Greeks," p. 345).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Since the entire body of a bivalve is ordinarily enclosed inside its shell, it does not come into contact with the outside environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mollusca] Reference