💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Operculum"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| paucispiral | (biology, malacology, conchology) Having few spirals or whorls. |
| horny | (slang) Sexually aroused, with or without physical manifestation; experiencing a feeling of sexual desire. |
| calcareous | Resembling or containing calcium carbonate or limestone; chalky. |
| operculenoun | Alternative form of operculum. [(zoology) A covering flap in animals, such as a gill cover.] |
| gill covernoun | (anatomy, zoology) An operculum; a series of bones found in bony fish that serves as a facial support structure and a protective covering for the gills. |
| operclenoun | (anatomy, zoology) An operculum. |
| suboperculumnoun | (anatomy) The lower opercular bone in fishes. |
| praeoperculumnoun | Alternative form of preoperculum. [(anatomy) The anterior opercular bone in fishes.] |
| operculate | (zoology or botany) Having an operculum. |
| gillnoun | (zootomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals. |
| scutumnoun | (historical, Roman antiquity) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavily armed infantry of the Roman army. |
| gill slitnoun | An individual opening to gills, which lacks an operculum; characteristic of cartilaginous fish such as sharks. |
| book gillnoun | (zoology) A gill found in horseshoe crabs consisting of membranous folds, resembling the leaves of a book. |
| parapodiumnoun | (zoology) Any of the paired unjointed lateral outgrowths used for locomotion by worms such as annelids. |
| pseudobranchianoun | (marine biology) A small patch of gill-like filaments on the inner surface of the opercle near the junction of the preopercle. |
| shellnoun | A hard external covering of an animal. |
| eyelobenoun | (zoology) Palpebral lobe in crustacea. |
| gonopodiumnoun | (anatomy) A modified extremity, such as an anal fin, of certain types of livebearing fish and arthropods (most notably crustaceans and myriapods), which is used for reproduction. |
| serrulanoun | (zoology) A kind of tooth found in spiders. |
| pterygopodiumnoun | (anatomy) A modified part of the pelvic fin in male elasmobranchs, which serves as a copulatory organ |
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