The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dreissena \Dreis"se*na\, prop. n. [NL. Named after Dreyssen, a Belgian physician.] (Zool.) A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (Dreissena polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe. [1913 Webster]WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Dreissena n 1: zebra mussels [syn: Dreissena, genus Dreissena]