Lexicographical Neighbors of Operculums
Literary usage of Operculums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some more scraps about birds by Charles Murray Adamson (1881)
"In the gizzard of one I killed in Lancashire during the breeding season was
nothing but the operculums of Buccinum lapillis. How it had got at the animal is ..."
2. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1854)
"... I have observed that, when left uncovered by water, they kept the orifice of
their operculums a little open, with a bubble of air within their sacks, ..."
3. Zoology: Descriptive and Practical by Buel Preston Colton (1903)
"These are not entirely distinct from the pond snails; still, they nearly all
breathe by means of gills, and most of them have operculums. ..."
4. Zoölogy, Descriptive and Practical by Buel Preston Colton (1903)
"These are not entirely distinct from the pond snails; still, they nearly all
breathe by means of gills, and most of them have operculums. ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1890)
"A careful study of the insula will be made by the removal of the several operculums,
kindly authorized by Prof. Dwight. In the published figure the ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1910)
"On the left the insula has been fully exposed by removing the operculums ; it is
small, presents no true fissures, and resembles a rounded ridge curved ..."
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