1) Animal anatomy 2) Beautiful stone 3) Cerebrum 4) Decorative stone 5) Gemstone 6) Gill cover 7) Jewel 8) Jewel with organic origin 9) Mollusc product 10) Organic gem 11) Organic precious stone 12) Organic jewel 13) Organic gem material 14) Plate 15) Prized stone 16) Precious organic stone 17) Precious stone
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1) Lid
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a lid or cover becoming detached at maturity by abscission, e.g. in Eucalyptus, a cap covering the bud and formed by fusion or cohesion of sepals and/or petals. adj. operculate
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Hard cover protecting gills
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Anther Cap
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cover or lid; lid-like organ or covering
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A flap or lid-like covering over the opening of an ascus or sporangium. (Pl. opercula.)
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• (n.) The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses. • (n.) The lid of a pitcherform leaf. • (n.) The lid closing the aperture of various species of shells, as the common whelk. See Illust. of Gastropoda. • (n.) Any lidlike or operculiform process or part; as, the opercula of a dental follicle. • (n.) Any lid-shaped structure c...
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(from the article `amphibian`) ...can receive external stimuli. Also unique to amphibians is the columella-opercular complex, a pair of elements associated with the auditory ... Zooid polymorphism exists among the cheilostome colonies, and the operculum seems to have been significant in the evolution of the specialized zooids ... The...
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(from the article `bryophyte`) The moss sporangium usually opens by way of an apical lid (the operculum). When the operculum falls, there is exposed a ring of teeth that controls ... ...and often with thickened midrib; cells usually lacking corner thickenings; oil bodies, if present, not complex; jacket of sporangium often with ... [...
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a bony gill cover.
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A lid or cover becoming detached at maturity by abscission, in Eucalyptus (for example), a cap covering the bud and formed by fusion or cohesion of perianth parts. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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(o-pur´ku-lәm) Latin word meaning lid or covering. the folds of pallium from the frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes of the cerebrum overlying the insula. adj., oper´cular., adj. dental operculum the hood of gingival tissue overlying the crown of an erupting...
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The bony covering of the gill chamber; the gill cover.
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O·per'cu·lum noun ;
plural Latin
Opercula , English
Operculums . [ Latin , a cover or lid, from
operire to cover.]
1. (Botany) (a) The lid of a pitcherform leaf.
(b) The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses.
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A lid, as of a circumscissile capsule.
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Anther Cap
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A small plug of mucus that seals the cervix to protect your baby from infection. During pregnancy, secretions will accumulate and form a mucus plug at the opening of your cervix to protect against infection. The mucus plug will remain at the top of the cervix until just before labor begins. As labor begins, the cervix will begin to thin out and d.....
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In zoology, an operculum is a lid or flap of skin covering an aperture, such as the gill slit cover of fish and larval amphibians and the horny calcareous operculum secreted by many gastropod molluscs, which closes the opening of the shell when the animal is inside. In botany an operculum is the cone-shaped lid of the capsule of mosses, which is fo...
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fleshy partial covering over nostril
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A flap partially covering the nares; it may help to keep out debris. Found in some ground-feeding birds such as starlings, pigeons, and domestic chickens.
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noun 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
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Gill cover
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Latin = lid or cover; hence, operculum insulae, the cerebral cortex covering and hiding the insula (the 5th lobe of cerebral cortex).
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a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel. · · the gill cover of fishes and amphibians. See diag. underfish. · (in many gastropods) a horny plate that closes the opening of the shell when the animal is retracted.
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