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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the fore lid or operculum in mosses.
- noun In ichthyology, one of the four principal opercular bones. See
operculum , and cut underteleost .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) Same as
preoperculum .
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- noun Alternative form of
preoperculum .
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