Word Meanings - SUBOPERCULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Situated below the operculum; pertaining to the suboperculum. -- n.
Related words: (words related to SUBOPERCULAR)
- SITUATE
To place. Landor. - SITUATE; SITUATED
1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - BELOWT
To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. Camden. - SUBOPERCULUM
The lower opercular bone in fishes. - BELOW
1. Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak. 2. Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. "One degree below kings." Addison. 3. Unworthy of; unbefitting; - SITUATION
1. Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation. 2. Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case. A situation of the greatest - OPERCULUM
The lid of a pitcherform leaf. The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses. Any lidlike or operculiform process or part; as, the opercula of a dental follicle. The fold of integument, usually supported by bony plates, which protects the gills of most - PREOPERCULUM
The anterior opercular bone in fishes. - FURBELOW
A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment. - PRAEOPERCULUM
See A - INTEROPERCULUM
The postero-inferior opercular bone, in fishes. - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach