Crossword-Solution: OPERCULA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Opercula | n. pl. | See Operculum. |
| Opercula | pl. | of Operculum |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MAZCEE
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eruption
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Sentences with OPERCULA (5)
These calcareous opercula effervesce with lemon juice, and put themselves in motion in proportion as the carbonic acid is disengaged.
But the difficulty in accepting this conclusion was that there was a distinct though gentle respiratory movement of the jaws and opercula; and if the pumping of the water from beneath the body caused a negative pressure there, and a positive pressure on the outer side of the body, it seemed equally certain that the respiratory movement must force water into the space beneath the body and so cause a positive pressure there which would tend to force the fish away from the surface with which it was in contact.
The tails were only half the original length, all had well-developed hind-legs, some with toes, but the fore-legs were beneath the opercula, not projecting from the surface.
Not the true Cat's-eye, but the name given in Australia to the opercula of Turbo smaragdus, Martyn, a marine mollusc.
Etym: [Multi- + spiral.] (Zoöl.) Defn: Having numerous spiral coils round a center or nucleus; -- said of the opercula of certain shells.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1998).