Noun: unio
Sample Sentences
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In June, 1850, a living pond mussel was sent to Dr. Gray from Australia which had been kept out of water more than a year, and instances of the survival of unios without moisture for long periods are not rare. [1894 May, “Sleep of mollusks”, in Popular Science, volume 45, number 1, page 99:]
Nouns inflected like unio
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From the genus name, Unio, from Latin ūniō (“large pearl”). Doublet of union. See: Latin Nouns '
ūniō'.