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Words related to mussel

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  • date mussel

    any brown, date-sized marine mussel, genus Lithophaga, that bores into rock or coral.

  • zebra mussel

    a small striped freshwater mussel from NE Europe, Dreissena polymorpha: introduced to the Great Lakes in the 1980s and deleteriously affecting water pipes, other fauna, etc.

  • bivalve

    any marine or freshwater mollusc of the class Pelecypoda (formerly Bivalvia or Lamellibranchia), having a laterally compressed body, a shell consisting of two hinged valves, and gills for respiration. The group includes clams, cockles, oysters, and mussels

  • cultured pearl

    A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.

  • glochidium

    glochid.

  • mussel crab

    a pea crab, Pinnotheres maculatus, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of mussels.
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