sb. (a.) Zool. [ad. mod.L. lāmellibranchia pl., f. L. LAMELLA + Gr. βράγχια gills.] A lamellibranchiate or bivalve mollusk; one of the Lamellibranchiata.
1855. H. Spencer, Princ. Psychol. (1872), I. I. ii. 15. In the Lamellibranchs several such … ganglia are distributed … in different parts of the body.
1872. Nicholson, Palæont., 188. No Lamellibranch is destitute of a shell.
b. attrib. or adj. = LAMELLIBRANCHIATE a.
1867. J. Hogg, Microsc., II. ii. 377. The contents of the stomachs of most Lamellibranch molluscs … exhibit a considerable admixture of the minute calcareous Foraminifera.
