"Pâte de Guimauve" owes its healing nutritive character to this despised univalve, which is said to enter largely into its composition. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
"Besides, " said the pretty univalve, -having frightened away the lovers, it is our fault that you are stranded here. From Wordnik.com. [Skinny Legs and All]
Vetustovermis bears a number of morphological features that are found in Kimberella, which has been interpreted to have a non-mineralized but stiff univalve shell. From Wordnik.com. [Down with phyla! (episode II) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The hill consisted of a red ferruguinous sandstone, in parts of which were imbedded univalve and bivalve shells, pieces of water-worn or burnt wood, and what seemed fragments of bone. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
The saltwater univalve with the ear-shaped shell, iridescent inside, contains a rock-clinging creature which, when pounded thin and tender, like a scaloppine, holds pride of place at Chinese banquets. From Wordnik.com. [Abalone delicious] Reference
He sees the wave lines, the effect of waves on soft sand, the delicate shading of the bottom in grays innumerable; now the collar-like egg of a univalve or the sharp eye of a sole or halibut protruding from the sand. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
Abalone's are a univalve that has been much in vogue among the Chinese but has seldom found place on the tables of restaurants owing to the difficulty in preparing them, as they are tough and insipid under ordinary circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference
If strong winds occur during the cool months, among the wreaths of broken seaweed thrown on the beach may be found unbroken and fresh specimens of a singularly beautiful and fragile univalve known commonly and most appropriately as the. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
We find lacustrine marls on the sides of the Esquiline Hill where it slopes down into the Forum, and fresh-water bivalve and univalve shells in the ground under the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitol; while on the face of the Aventine Hill, overhanging the Tiber at a height of ninety feet, is a cliff of travertine, which is half a mile long. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
Brined pork at Boulevard With farm-raised local Davenport abalone, the Aqua kitchen played an even subtler contrapuntal game, mimicking the challenging texture of this expensive univalve with other naturally spunky foods rich in distinct flavors of their own: pork belly, chanterelle mushrooms and smoked garlic, combined in a reduced "jus" rendered from Manila clams. From Wordnik.com. [Bay Watch] Reference
A shell pin made from the columella of a large univalve. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510] Reference
It is the most common univalve in the marl beds of Edgecombe county. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
Found occupying the interior of the large univalve shells of the miocene. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
Pericarpium univalve latere altera hngitudinaliter dehifcensy nee futura femina ajjigens. From Wordnik.com. [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference
The periwinkle is univalve and spiral, and grows to the size of seven or eight inches in length. From Wordnik.com. [Collections] Reference
It was easy to see that the stones are thin and porous opercula, which have formed part of small univalve shells. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
There was one imported shell that we did not value much, it was so abundant -- the freckled univalve they called a "prop.". From Wordnik.com. [A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)] Reference
Pectens, a triangular univalve resembling a Trochus, innumerable groups of Serpulæ, and the star-like joints of Pentacrinites. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
A univalve shell frequently represented is of an oval shape, pointed at each end, with a longitudinal lip and a short spire at one extremity. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Figures in the Maya Codices] Reference
This discovery is so much the more interesting, as it does not appear that any of these adhesive animals were ever before found in univalve shells. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888] Reference
It has long appeared to me that in the tropics as well as in the temperate zone the species of univalve shells are much more numerous than bivalves. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
But such terms at best cannot be scientific, precise, determinate, as for examples the terms inorganic, mammal, univalve, Old Red Sandstone are scientific, precise, determinate. From Wordnik.com. [VI. On the Capital Difficulty of Prose] Reference
The upper part is similar in size and shape, but is modeled to represent a univalve shell, the apex being represented by a large node surrounded by six smaller nodes, and the base or spine by a graceful extension of the rim. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510] Reference
Another freshwater univalve (Paludina marginata, Michaud), not British, but common in the south of France, likewise occurs, and a peculiar variety of Cyclas amnica, which by some naturalists has been regarded as a distinct species. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
About three miles below the springs, on the right bank of the river, is a nearly perpendicular limestone rock, presenting a uniformly unbroken surface, twenty to forty feet high, containing very great numbers of a large univalve shell; which appears to belong to the genus. From Wordnik.com. [The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources] Reference
/26 Various foffil univalve Shells, and fome rare foffil Barna clcs i./; t "/rj Various foffil univalve Shells. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Southgatianum, Being a Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Books, Coins, Medals, and ...] Reference
Ditto, a fossil univalve. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594] Reference
20. univalve. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
There are three varieties, spiral, univalve, and bivalve. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
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