UNIVALVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does univalve mean? 

• UNIVALVE (noun)
  The noun UNIVALVE has 1 sense:

1. a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes

  Familiarity information: UNIVALVE used as a noun is very rare.

• UNIVALVE (adjective)
  The adjective UNIVALVE has 1 sense:

1. used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc.

  Familiarity information: UNIVALVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIVALVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

gastropod; univalve

Hypernyms ("univalve" is a kind of...):

mollusc; mollusk; shellfish (invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "univalve"):

abalone; ear-shell (any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior)

conch (any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip)

snail (freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell)

slug (any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell)

seasnail (any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids)

Ancylus fluviatilis; freshwater limpet; river limpet (minute conical gastropod superficially resembling a limpet but living and feeding on freshwater plants)

nudibranch; sea slug (any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body)

Aplysia punctata; sea hare (naked marine gastropod having a soft body with reduced internal shell and two pairs of ear-like tentacles)

bubble shell (marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell)

physa (any member of the genus Physa)

cowrie; cowry (any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells)

aplacophoran; solenogaster (deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle)

Holonyms ("univalve" is a member of...):

class Gasteropoda; class Gastropoda; Gasteropoda; Gastropoda (snails and slugs and their relatives)

• UNIVALVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc.

Similar:

single-shelled (univalve)

Domain category:

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

Antonym:

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