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.