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Bearing an operculum.
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Destitute of an operculum, or cover.
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The principal opercular bone in the upper and posterior part of the gill cover.
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One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
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A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm.
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Producing an operculum; -- said of the foot, or part of the foot, of certain mollusks.
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Alt. of Operculated
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One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.
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Any spiral marine gastropod belonging to Turritella and allied genera. These mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls. They have a rounded aperture, and a horny multispiral operculum.
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Any lidlike or operculiform process or part; as, the opercula of a dental follicle.
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Any one of the bony plates which support the gill covers of fishes; an opercular bone.
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of Operculum
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A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum.
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The principal opercular bone or operculum of fishes.
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Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.
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An operculum.
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Having an operculum, or an apparatus for protecting the gills; -- said of shells and of fishes.
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See Operculum.
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of Operculum
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Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.
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