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Word Meanings - INTEROPERCULUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The postero-inferior opercular bone, in fishes.

Related words: (words related to INTEROPERCULUM)

  • INFERIORLY
    In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
  • POSTERO
    - (posterior, back; as, postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated back and at the side.
  • INFERIOR
    Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer. Inferior court , a court subject to the jurisdiction of another court known as the superior, or higher, court. -- Inferior letter, Inferior figure , a small letter or figure standing at the
  • INFERIORITY
    The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
  • OPERCULAR
    Of, pertaining to, or like, an operculum.
  • INTEROPERCULAR
    Of or pertaining to the interoperculum. -- n.
  • INOPERCULAR; INOPERCULATE
    Having no operculum; -- said of certain gastropod shells.
  • PREPOSTEROUS
    1. Having that first which ought to be last; inverted in order. The method I take may be censured as preposterous, because I thus treat last of the antediluvian earth, which was first in the order of nature. Woodward. 2. Contrary to nature
  • SUBOPERCULAR
    Situated below the operculum; pertaining to the suboperculum. -- n.
  • PREOPERCULAR
    Situated in front of the operculum; pertaining to the preoperculum. -- n.

 

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