Lexicographical Neighbors of Opercule
Literary usage of Opercule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Book of the Black Bass, Comprising Its Complete Scientific and Life History by James Alexander Henshall (1881)
"(RAFINESQUE, Ich. Ohi. 26, 1820.) LEPOMIS Rafinesque, 1820.—"This genus differs
from Holocentrus by having the opercule scaly, ..."
2. Ichthyologia Ohiensis, Or, Natural History of the Fishes Inhabiting the by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Richard Ellsworth Call (1899)
"Upper jaw longer, one spine on the opercule, body oblong, breadth one fourth of
total length, silvery with five longitudinal brownish stripes on each side, ..."
3. The Old World and the New, Or, A Journal of Reflections and Observations by Orville Dewey (1844)
"C'est ordinairement pendant la nuit que l'urne se remplit, et dans cet état,
l'opercule est généralement fermé. Pendant le jour, l'opercule se soulève, ..."
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