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operculum

operculum is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The lid of a pitcherform leaf. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 21 · 8 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

    The lid of a pitcherform leaf.

  2. 2noun

    The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses.

  3. 3noun

    Any lidlike or operculiform process or part; as, the opercula of a dental follicle.

  4. 4noun

    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.

  5. 5noun

    The principal opercular bone in the upper and posterior part of the gill cover.

  6. 6noun

    The lid closing the aperture of various species of shells, as the common whelk. See Illust. of Gastropoda.

  7. 7noun

    Any lid-shaped structure closing the aperture of a tube or shell.

  8. 8noun

    a hard flap serving as a cover for (a) the gill slits in fishes or (b) the opening of the shell in certain gastropods when the body is retracted

Common word forms

operculums

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