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Anacharis
noun · 78% connection
A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceae), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Anas
noun · 78% connection
A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Avicula
noun · 78% connection
A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Beard
noun · 78% connection
The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Bite
verb · 78% connection
The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Bivalve
noun · 78% connection
A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usua…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
But
verb · 78% connection
A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, ins…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Cephalata
n. pl. · 78% connection
A large division of Mollusca, including all except the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustrati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Cypris
noun · 78% connection
A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Distill
verb · 78% connection
To obtain by distillation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Drill
noun · 78% connection
A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Escutcheon
noun · 78% connection
The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Fresh
superl · 78% connection
Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Fresh-water
adjective · 78% connection
Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Freshen
verb · 78% connection
To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Horse
noun · 78% connection
A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a ver…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Lamprey
noun · 78% connection
An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Langya
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
