thin-shelled mussel

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   mussel with thin fragile shells having only rudimentary hinge teeth

   Broaderfreshwater mussel

   Part ofAnodonta

Questions about thin-shelled mussel

What does thin-shelled mussel mean?

thin-shelled mussel means "mussel with thin fragile shells having only rudimentary hinge teeth".

Is thin-shelled mussel a common word?

thin-shelled mussel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.