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Turbo :: Turbo (n.) 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..

Suborbicular :: Suboperculum (n.) The lower opercular bone in fishes.

Oparcular :: Oparcular (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, an operculum..

Paucispiral :: Paucispiral (a.) Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell..

Interpercular :: Interpercular (a.) Of or pertaining to the interoperculum.

Suboperculum :: Subopercular (n.) The suboperculum.

Opercular :: Opercular (n.) The principal opercular bone or operculum of fishes.

Eyestone :: Eyestone (n.) A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small marine shell of the family Turbinidae, used to remove a foreign substance from the eye. It is put into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with it the substance..

Subopercular :: Subopercular (a.) Situated below the operculum; pertaining to the suboperculum.

Rostellum :: Rostellum (n.) 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..

Operculum :: Operculum (n.) The lid of a pitcherform leaf.

Serpula :: Serpula (n.) 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..

Scutum :: Scutum (n.) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.

Opercula :: Opercula (n. pl.) See Operculum.

Valvata :: Valvata (n.) A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum.

Interoperculum :: Interoperculum (n.) The postero-inferior opercular bone, in fishes..

Operculated :: Operculated (a.) Having an operculum, or an apparatus for protecting the gills; -- said of shells and of fishes..

Operculum :: Operculum (n.) The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses.

Preopercular :: Preopercular (n.) The preoperculum.

Operculums :: Operculums (pl. ) of Operculu.

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