o|per|cu|lum

o|per|cu|lum
o|per|cu|lum «oh PUR kyuh luhm», noun, plural -la «-luh», -lums.
Biology. a lidlike part or organ; any flap covering an opening, such as the lid of the spore case in mosses, the plate of some gastropods that closes the opening of the shell, the gill cover of a fish, or the limb of the calyx on a species of eucalyptus.
╂[< Latin operculum < operīre to cover]

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