Definition of Operculates. Meaning of Operculates. Synonyms of Operculates

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Definition of Operculates

Operculate
Operculate O*per"cu*late, Operculated O*per"cu*la`ted, a. [L. operculatus, p. p. of operculare to furnish with a lid, fr. operculum lid.] 1. (Bot.) Closed by a lid or cover, as the capsules of the mosses. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Having an operculum, or an apparatus for protecting the gills; -- said of shells and of fishes.

Meaning of Operculates from wikipedia

- identify and classify related groups (genera) of land operculates, and likewise some marine operculates.[citation needed] The oldest known human depiction...
- American Cup-Fungi (Operculates). New York, New York: Hafner Publishing Co. p. 200. Seaver FJ. (1942). The North American Cup-Fungi (Operculates) (Supplemented ed...
- Retrieved 2014-05-05. Seaver FJ. (1942). The North American Cup-fungi (Operculates). New York. p. 232.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher...
- present). The aperture may have a lid (operculum), hence is described as operculate. However the term inaperturate covers a wide range of morphological types...
- snails is the Cyclophoroidea, with more than 7,000 species. Many of these operculate land snails live in habitats or microhabitats that are sometimes (or often)...
- Publishing. pp. 323–4. Seaver FJ. (1942). The North American cup-fungi (Operculates) (Supplement ed.). New York, New York: Self published. p. 244. Arora...
- Operculated sulcus separates by its lips into two areas and contains a third area in the walls of the sulcus e.g. lunate sulcus is an operculated sulcus...
- as poricidal dehiscence. The pore may have a cover (operculate poricidal dehiscense or operculate dehiscence) that is referred to as an operculum or it...
- mechanisms that can be grouped into the broad categories of operculate or inoperculate. Operculate discharge involves the complete or incomplete detachment...
- consists of ten segments, some of which may be obscured by a large pair of operculate gills, a thoracic shield (expanded part of the prothorax) or the developing...