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L
- lateral teeth
- Hinge teeth located far away from the umbo in a heterodont hinge.
- law
- An established principle thought to be universal and invariable; see also hypothesis, theory.
- ligament
- Elastic uncalcified structure that connects the two bivalve shells at the hinge line and functions as a spring to open the valves when the adductor muscles relax.
- lineage
- Line of descent from an ancestor.