BIVALVE Synonyms

• burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness

• a piece of paper money worth one dollar

• flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams

• gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

• invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

• black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine

• marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc.

• marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters

• edible body of any of numerous oysters

• a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl

• gather oysters, dig oysters

• one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

• edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces

• thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled

• edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions

• decorate an edge with scallops

• bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top

• form scallops in

• fish for scallops

• shape or cut in scallops

• used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)

• marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together

• bivalve

• marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together

• bivalve