opercular
- a word derived from operculum.
Example Sentences
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The vocal organs, of which there is a pair in the thorax, protected by an opercular plate, are quite unlike the sounding organs of other insects.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
Whence and for what purpose, if the Serpulae were produced or created as ready-formed species, these lateral filaments of the opercular peduncle?
From Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Muller, Fritz
A number of the thyroid-fed were dying, and the skin and opercular membranes were swollen out away from the tissues beneath.
From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.
From the hinder edge of the hyoid arch grows out the membranous operculum, in which develop later the opercular bones and branchiostegal rays.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
In the argument thus far we have considered terrestrial, adult amphibians, since it is only in these that either the normal middle ear and tympanum, or the opercular apparatus, is present.
From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
