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Having a valve or valve; valvate.

Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.

Having the valves equal in size and from, as in most bivalve shells.

Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.

Having one valve; as, a univalve shell or pericarp.

The valved piston of a lifting pump. Fire bucket, a bucket for carrying water to put out fires. -- To kick the bucket, to die. [Low]

Same as Equivalve or Equivalved.

ng a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.

alth lift, under Health. -- Lifting pump. (Mach.) (a) A kind of pump having a bucket, or valved piston, instead of a solid piston, for drawing water and lifting it to a high level. (b) A pump which lifts the water only to the top of the pump, or delivers it through a spout; a lift pump. -- Lifting rod, a vertical rod…

Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons.

Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp.

Having three valves; three-valved.