Usually means: Lids covering openings in organisms.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. opercula: Merriam-Webster
  2. opercula: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. opercula: Collins English Dictionary
  4. opercula: Vocabulary.com
  5. opercula: Wordnik
  6. opercula: Wiktionary
  7. opercula: Dictionary.com
  8. Opercula: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. opercula: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Opercula: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. opercula: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Opercula: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. opercula: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. opercula: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. opercula: Medical dictionary

(Note: See operculum as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (operculum)

noun:  (zoology) A covering flap in animals, such as a gill cover.
noun:  (botany) The lidlike portion of a moss sporangium or of a fruit that detaches to allow the dispersal of spores or seeds.
noun:  (dentistry) A gum flap covering (part of) a partially erupted tooth, usually a wisdom tooth.
noun:  A structure which serves as a cover or lid.
noun:  (anatomy) One of several flaps of cerebral cortex covering the insula.
▸ Also see operculum


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