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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne