Word Meanings - OPERCULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, or like, an operculum.

Related words: (words related to OPERCULAR)

• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• OPERCULUM
  The lid of a pitcherform leaf. The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses. Any lidlike or operculiform process or part; as, the opercula of a dental follicle. The fold of integument, usually supported by bony plates, which protects the gills of most
• PREOPERCULUM
  The anterior opercular bone in fishes.
• PRAEOPERCULUM
  See A
• INTEROPERCULUM
  The postero-inferior opercular bone, in fishes.
• SUBOPERCULUM
  The lower opercular bone in fishes.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach