double-shelled

Updated: May 22, 2025

It is but a shell-fish truly; but the great Cuvier thought it remarkable enough to devote to its anatomy elaborate descriptions and drawings, which have done more perhaps than any others to illustrate the curious economy of the whole class of bivalve, or double-shelled, mollusca. That red capsicum is the foot of the animal contained in the cockleshell.

Charles Kingsley - Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore