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(1) - Operculum (n.) Any lid-shaped structure closing the aperture of a tube or shell. (2) - Operculum (n.) The lid closing the aperture of various species of shells, as the common whelk. See Illust. of Gastropoda. (3) - Operculum (n.) The principal opercular bone in the upper and posterior part of the gill cover. (4) - Operculum (n.) The fold of integument, usually supported by bony plates, which protects the gills of most fishes and some amphibians; the gill cover; the gill lid. (5) - Operculum (n.) Any lidlike or operculiform process or part; as, the opercula of a dental follicle. (6) - Operculum (n.) The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses. (7) - Operculum (n.) The lid of a pitcherform leaf.
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