Usually means: Pertaining to a covering flap.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word opercular:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. opercular: Merriam-Webster
  2. opercular: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. opercular: Collins English Dictionary
  4. opercular: Wordnik
  5. Opercular: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  6. opercular: Wiktionary
  7. opercular: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Opercular, opercular: Dictionary.com
  9. Opercular: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. opercular: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Opercular: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. opercular: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Opercular: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. opercular: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. opercular: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (opercular)

▸ adjective:  (anatomy, botany, zoology) relating to the operculum
▸ noun:  (anatomy) The principal opercular bone or operculum of fishes.

Similar:
subopercular, preopercular, ocellar, ocellorbital, ocellary, oculistic, ocellocular, operonic, oculoplastic, osphradial, more...

Phrases:
opercular fold, more...

Adjectives:
frontal, left, superior, right, small, associated, primary, large, hollowed

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Similar:
subopercular, preopercular, ocellar, ocellorbital, ocellary, oculistic, ocellocular, operonic, oculoplastic, osphradial, more...

Phrases:
opercular fold, more...

Adjectives:
frontal, left, superior, right, small, associated, primary, large, hollowed



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