Word Meanings - PREOPERCULUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The anterior opercular bone in fishes.

Related words: (words related to PREOPERCULUM)

• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• OPERCULAR
  Of, pertaining to, or like, an operculum.
• ANTERIOR
  1. Before in time; antecedent. Antigonus, who was anterior to Polybius. Sir G. C. Lewis. 2. Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior. Note: In comparative anatomy, anterior often signifies
• ANTERIORLY
  In an anterior manner; before.
• INTEROPERCULAR
  Of or pertaining to the interoperculum. -- n.
• INOPERCULAR; INOPERCULATE
  Having no operculum; -- said of certain gastropod shells.
• SUBOPERCULAR
  Situated below the operculum; pertaining to the suboperculum. -- n.
• PREOPERCULAR
  Situated in front of the operculum; pertaining to the preoperculum. -- n.