From sub- + operculum. <span class="searchmatch">suboperculum</span> (plural subopercula) (anatomy) The lower opercular bone in fishes. “<span class="searchmatch">suboperculum</span>”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged...
operculum. (anatomy) Relating to the <span class="searchmatch">suboperculum</span>. subopercular (plural suboperculars) (anatomy) The <span class="searchmatch">suboperculum</span>. Part or all of this entry has been imported...
preoperculums or preopercula) (anatomy) The anterior opercular bone in fishes. <span class="searchmatch">suboperculum</span> “preoperculum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield...
definition is needed) operculiferous operculitis preoperculum interoperculum <span class="searchmatch">suboperculum</span> opercle (zoology) covering flap in animals (botany) lidlike portion on...
Freshwater Fishes, →ISBN, page 200: The opercular bone is reduced and the <span class="searchmatch">suboperculum</span> enlarged, and the caudal skeleton is unique in having only two free epural...