Associations to the word «Opercle»

Wiktionary

OPERCLE, noun. (anatomy) Any of the bony plates supporting the gill covers of fishes; an opercular bone.
OPERCLE, noun. (zoology) An operculum.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope