Zool. [mod. f. L. concha (bivalve) shell + -fer bearing: in F. conchifère.] A bivalve mollusk of the class Conchifera.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 695/2. The family of monomyary Conchifers.
1847. Ansted, Anc. World, iv. 55. The brachiopods … were … superseded … by the higher conchifers.
