Definitions for operculums

operculums o·per·cu·lum

Spelling: [oh-pur-kyuh-luh m]
IPA: /oʊˈpɜr kyə ləm/

Operculums is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 692 anagrams from letters in operculums (celmoprsuu).

Definitions for operculums

noun

  1. Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  2. Zoology. the gill cover of fishes and amphibians. (in many gastropods) a horny plate that closes the opening of the shell when the animal is retracted.
  3. Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  4. Zoology. the gill cover of fishes and amphibians. (in many gastropods) a horny plate that closes the opening of the shell when the animal is retracted.

Origin of operculums

1705-15; New Latin, Latin: lid, cover, equivalent to oper(īre) to cover + -culum -cule2

Examples for operculums

Their gill-clefts are covered by an operculum, and they have a well-developed air-bladder.

The outer lip is also thickened and bent inward, and there is no operculum.

Aperture quadrilateral, closed by an operculum of four valves.

In Cryptohelia the cyclosystem is covered by a cap or operculum.

The animal is said to resemble a Cyclostoma, but has no operculum.

The aperture is large, and completely closed by the operculum.

This flap, an outgrowth of the hyoid arch, is known as the operculum.

There is no operculum and no representative of the maxilla or premaxillae.

Sometimes, however, its form is conical or spiral, with or without an operculum.

The operculum fits the entrance to its shell like a trap door.

The aperture is large, and completely closed by the operculum.

This flap, an outgrowth of the hyoid arch, is known as the operculum.

The animal is said to resemble a Cyclostoma, but has no operculum.

There is no operculum and no representative of the maxilla or premaxillae.

In Cryptohelia the cyclosystem is covered by a cap or operculum.

Their gill-clefts are covered by an operculum, and they have a well-developed air-bladder.

Aperture quadrilateral, closed by an operculum of four valves.

Sometimes, however, its form is conical or spiral, with or without an operculum.

The operculum fits the entrance to its shell like a trap door.

The outer lip is also thickened and bent inward, and there is no operculum.

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