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Definition of Operculars
1. opercular [n] - See also: opercular
Lexicographical Neighbors of Operculars
Literary usage of Operculars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1866)
"No trace of inter-operculars. Branchiostegal rays numerous, flattened, enamelled.
The sculpture of the cranial and facial bones consists of close-set ..."
2. ... The Blood-vascular System of the Loricati, the Mailcheeked Fishes by William Fitch Allen (1905)
"... side of the operculars; running dorsad behind the corresponding arteries, they
curve ventrad, after leaving the dorsal edge of the ..."
3. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1866)
"No trace <.f inter-operculars. Branchiostegal rays numerous, flattened, enamelled.
The sculpture of the cranial and facial bones consists of close-set ..."
4. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1916)
"... caudal and dorsal fins, scales, operculars, gulars and the elements connecting
the shoulder- girdle with the skull, largely reduced the cleithrum and ..."
5. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"... and ' operculars,'34 — 37, fig. 81, are suppressed in the Reptile ; while
the ' malar,' 26, and squamosal, 27, are not developed in the fish. ..."
6. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"... and ' operculars,' 34—37, fig. 81, are suppressed in the Reptile; while the '
malar,' 2«, ..."
7. History of the Human Body by Harris Hawthorne Wilder (1909)
"The operculum, or gill-flap, which is present in these fishes, is covered and
augmented by supra-, sub-, and pre-operculars. In short, to anticipate the ..."
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