The sea scallop is a bivalve mollusk that lives inside a light pink, fan-shaped shell.

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Steen's "Oyster Eater" of around the same time is clearly trying to seduce the viewer, as she steals, salts and offers the aphrodisiac bivalve.

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It has a bivalve shell, two strings which move the valves against one another, and a small pump that expels water (he is still working on the best design for the foot).

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Other states may join the bivalve ban.

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In his Upper West Side office, Mark Kurlansky, author of The Big Oyster, a chronicle of the rise and fall of the bivalve in New York, is couched by a hotch potch of model ships, statuettes of jumping fish, an atlas, piles of novels, foreign language dictionaries, encyclopedias and loose papers.

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