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A genus of bivalve mollusks, including the common long, or soft-shelled, clam.

Pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism or neuralgia.

A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obtained from the small tree Acacia homolophylla.

A division of bivalve mollusks of which the common clam (Mya) is the type.

The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpæ. See Salpa.

An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

Like or pertaining to the Dimya. -- n.

Same as Dimyarian.

The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.

Pertaining to Himyar, an ancient king of Yemen, in Arabia, or to his successors or people; as, the Himjaritic characters, language, etc.; applied esp. to certain ancient inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia. Brande & C.

An order of lamellibranchs having but one muscle for closing the shell, as the oyster.

Of or pertaining to the Monomya. -- n.

A lamellibranch which has three muscular scars on each valve.

A farmyard. [Eng.] Southey.

A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indi…

een In these thy lowest works. Milton. Invisible bird (Zoöl.), a small, shy singing bird (Myadestes sibilons), of St. Vincent Islands. -- Invisible green, a very dark shade of green, approaching to black, and liable to be mistaken for it.

A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard. Lobby member, a lobbyist. [Humorous cant, U. S.]

Monomyal.

or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata.