interoperculum

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ operculum

Noun

interoperculum (plural interopercula)

  1. (anatomy) The posteroinferior opercular bone in fishes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for interoperculum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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