Crossword-Solution: OPERCULUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Operculum | n. | The lid of a pitcherform leaf. |
| Operculum | n. | The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses. |
| Operculum | n. | Any lidlike or operculiform process or part; as, the opercula of a dental follicle. |
| Operculum | n. | The fold of integument, usually supported by bony plates, which protects the gills of most fishes and some amphibians; the gill cover; the gill lid. |
| Operculum | n. | The principal opercular bone in the upper and posterior part of the gill cover. |
| Operculum | n. | The lid closing the aperture of various species of shells, as the common whelk. See Illust. of Gastropoda. |
| Operculum | n. | Any lid-shaped structure closing the aperture of a tube or shell. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “OPERCULUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| SHELL lid | 1 answer |
| VALVE of shell | 1 answer |
| FISH, external part of | 5 answers |
| Lid | 17 answers |
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Sentences with OPERCULUM (5)
LITTORINA LITTOREA (_See Plate_ 9); (_a_) 201 operculum; (_b_) pallet; (_c_) part of pallet, magnified.
The presence of an operculum seems to have been of importance, as out of twelve specimens of Cyclostoma elegans, which is thus furnished, eleven revived.
Some are of opinion that the two plates have been the gizzard of a cephalopod; others, that it may have formed a bivalve operculum of the same.
Some marine univalves can seal themselves inside with an operculum, which covers the open end of the shell like a trap door.
Hydrobia marginata.* (* This shell is said to have a sub-spiral operculum (not a concentric one, as in Paludina), and therefore to be referable to the Hydrobia, a sub-genus of Rissoa.