OPERCULAR
- belonging to the operculum [adj] / the opercular bone [n -S]
- part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel
- a. the gill cover of fishes and amphibians b. (in many gastropods) a horny plate that closes the opening of the shell when the animal is retracted
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