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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
præoperculum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The anterior opercular bone in fishes.
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- noun anatomy The
anterior opercular bone infishes .
Etymologies
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pre- + operculum
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