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univalve
/ ˈːɪˌæ /
adjective
- relating to, designating, or possessing a mollusc shell that consists of a single piece (valve)
noun
- a gastropod mollusc or its shell
univalve
/ ̅̅′ĭ-ă′ /
- A gastropod, especially one with a single shell, such as a snail, cone, whelk, abalone, or limpet. Univalves belong to the subclass Prosobranchia. Their shells are usually spiral and can hold the whole animal inside.
- Compare bivalve
Example Sentences
Slate noted that Marcel the Shell’s voice is “so little, so little,” but as Conan points out the adorable univalve sure has some “big lungs.”
It’s Marcel’s first video since 2011 and it seems that the happy little univalve was brought out of retirement to help promote his latest children’s book, Marcel the Shell: The Most Surprised I’ve Ever Been.
Shell univalve, greatly depressed, broad, ear-shaped, the disk with many perforations.
Shell univalve, turbinated, inversely conic, convolute; aperture longitudinal, narrow, not toothed; base effuse; spire very short.
A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.
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