Lexicographical Neighbors of Opercules
Literary usage of Opercules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Footprints of the Creator: Or the Asterolepis of Stromness by Hugh Miller (1872)
"The opercules of the animal consisted, as in the sturgeon, of single plates (fig.
... That space along the nape which intervened between the opercules, ..."
2. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"The branchial opercules are scaly or bony processes, situated on both sides of
the head, behind the eyes, closing the aperture of the gills, and sustaining ..."
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