Univalve is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 190 anagrams from letters in univalve (aeilnuvv).
First recorded in 1655-65; uni- + valve
Some of these are most vivid in their shapes and ray-like markings, particularly the univalve shells.
To this exceedingly large and comprehensive order of gasteropods belong the great majority of univalve mollusks.
Some sea-shells can be got from private collections of "curios" to illustrate the variety of form of the univalve shells.
The meaning of the univalve shell (Fig. 82) is also unknown.
But before we go further, it may be well to point out the names given to different parts of a univalve shell.
Cochleate: spirally twisted like a screw or a univalve shell.
Its intestines were filled with small crabs and univalve shells.
The univalve shells most characteristic of freshwater deposits are, Planorbis, Lymnea, and Paludina.
Columella: An upright pillar in the center of most of the univalve shells, round which the whorls are convoluted.
There appear to be three varieties, spiral, univalve, and bivalve.