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Operculated :: Operculated (a.) Closed by a lid or cover, as the capsules of the mosses..

Operculated :: Operculated (a.) Having an operculum, or an apparatus for protecting the gills; -- said of shells and of fishes..

Quin :: Quin (n.) A European scallop (Pecten opercularis), used as food..

Opercle :: Opercle (n.) Any one of the bony plates which support the gill covers of fishes; an opercular bone.

Opercular :: Opercular (n.) The principal opercular bone or operculum of fishes.

Deoperculate :: Deoperculate (a.) Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses.

Inopercular :: Inopercular (a.) Alt. of Inoperculat.

Aptychus :: Aptychus (n.) A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula..

Interpercular :: Interpercular (n.) The interopercular bone.

Interoperculum :: Interoperculum (n.) The postero-inferior opercular bone, in fishes..

Subopercular :: Subopercular (a.) Situated below the operculum; pertaining to the suboperculum.

Piper :: Piper (n.) A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines..

Operculum :: Operculum (n.) Any lidlike or operculiform process or part; as, the opercula of a dental follicle..

Unoperculated :: Unoperculated (a.) Destitute of an operculum, or cover..

Paludina :: Paludina (n.) Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond..

Operculate :: Operculate (a.) Alt. of Operculate.

Opercula :: Opercula (n. pl.) See Operculum.

Suboperculum :: Subopercular (n.) The suboperculum.

Pomacentroid :: Pomacentroid (a.) Pertaining to the Pomacentridae, a family of bright-colored tropical fishes having spiny opercula; -- often called coral fishes..

Opercula :: Opercula (pl. ) of Operculu.

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