Het`e*ro*my*a"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. other + a muscle.] Zool.

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

 

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