Definition of Operculates. Meaning of Operculates. Synonyms of Operculates

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Definition of Operculates

Operculate
Operculate O*per"cu*late, Operculated O*per"cu*la`ted, a. [L. operculatus, p. p. of operculare to furnish with a lid, fr. operculum lid.] 1. (Bot.) Closed by a lid or cover, as the capsules of the mosses. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Having an operculum, or an apparatus for protecting the gills; -- said of shells and of fishes.

Meaning of Operculates from wikipedia

- identify and classify related groups (genera) of land operculates, and likewise some marine operculates.[citation needed] The oldest known human depiction...
- Ser**** vermicularis, known by common names including the calcareous tubeworm, fan worm, plume worm or red tube worm, is a species of segmented marine...
- Larina is a genus of large operculate freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Viviparidae. Species within the genus Larina include...
- 7 are terrestrial pulmonates other than stylommatophorans, and 8 are operculates (formerly "prosobranchs", molluscs with an operculum, a group that primarily...
- Some important groups in Pezizomycotina include: Pezizomycetes (the operculate discomycetes), Leotiomycetes (the inoperculate discomycetes), Laboulbeniomycetes...
- unitunicate-operculate ascus has a "lid", the Operculum, which breaks open when the spores are mature and allows the spores to escape. Unitunicate-operculate asci...
- Alcadia hojarasca is a species of an operculate land snail, terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae. This species occurs in Costa Rica...
- aquatic gastropod mollusks, being some of the most widely distributed operculate freshwater snails. This family is classified in the informal group Architaenioglossa...
- American Cup-Fungi (Operculates). New York, New York: Hafner Publishing Co. p. 200. Seaver FJ. (1942). The North American Cup-Fungi (Operculates) (Supplemented ed...
- ISBN 0-85199-826-7. Seaver FJ. (1928). The North American Cup-Fungi (Operculates). New York, New York: self-published. p. 153. Pseudopithyella in Index...