preoperculum

English

Alternative forms

• preopercle
• preopercule

Etymology

pre- +‎ operculum

Noun

preoperculum (plural preoperculums or preopercula)

1. (anatomy) The anterior opercular bone in fishes.

Related terms

• suboperculum

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “preoperculum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)