Opercula
Opercula tanım:
Kelime: oper·cu·lum
Söyleniş: O-'p&r-ky&-l&m
İşlev: noun
Türleri: plural oper·cu·la
/-l&/; also -lumsKökeni: New Latin, from Latin, cover, from operire to shut, cover
1 : a body process or part that suggests a lid: as a : a horny or shelly plate on the posterior dorsal surface of the foot in many gastropod mollusks that closes the shell when the animal is retracted b : the covering of the gills of a fish -- see FISH illustration
2 : a lid or covering flap (as of a moss capsule or a pyxidium in a seed plant)
