Word Meanings - SUBOPERCULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated below the operculum; pertaining to the suboperculum. -- n.

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• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• SITUATE; SITUATED
  1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
• 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
• BELOWT
  To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. Camden.
• SUBOPERCULUM
  The lower opercular bone in fishes.
• BELOW
  1. Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak. 2. Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. "One degree below kings." Addison. 3. Unworthy of; unbefitting;
• SITUATION
  1. Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation. 2. Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case. A situation of the greatest
• 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.
• FURBELOW
  A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.
• PRAEOPERCULUM
  See A
• INTEROPERCULUM
  The postero-inferior 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