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Word: Opercular
Speech Type: Adjective
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Phonetic Spelling:
ə(ʊ)ˈpəːkjʊlə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
relating to or denoting a structure that closes or covers an aperture such as a fish's gills
Short Definition:relating to or denoting structure that closes or covers aperture
Examples:- age and growth of individual fish were determined from opercular bones
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