Operculum

Definition: Operculum

Operculum

Noun

1. A hard flap serving as a cover for (a) the gill slits in fishes or (b) the opening of the shell in certain gastropods when the body is retracted.

Date "operculum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Etymology: Operculum \O*per"cu*lum\, noun; plural Latin Opercula, English Operculums. [Latin expression, cover or lid, from operire to cover.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Covering	Top, lid, covercle, door, operculum; bulkhead.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Operculum

English words defined with "operculum": Eyestone ♦ Inoperculate ♦ nerita ♦ Onycha, Oparcular, Opercle, Opercula, Opercular, operculate, operculated, Operculiferous, Operculigenous, Operculums ♦ Paucispiral, Preopercular ♦ Rostellum ♦ Scutum, Serpula, Spiral operculum, Subopercular ♦ Tergum, Turbo, Turritella ♦ Unoperculated ♦ Valvata. (references)

Etymologies containing "operculum": Opercle, Operculiform ♦ Suboperculum. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Operculum" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (cover, lid).

"Operculum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Operculum" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	18	82,615

Expression using "operculum": spiral operculum. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "operculum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		厴 . (various references)

Danish		operculum temporale (temporal operculum). (various references)

Dutch		operculum temporale (temporal operculum). (various references)

French		opercule temporal (temporal operculum). (various references)

German		Operculum temporale (temporal operculum), Pars temp.operculi (temporal operculum). (various references)

Greek		κροταφική μοίρα της καλύπτρας της νήσου ή κάτω καλύπτρα (temporal operculum). (various references)

Italian		opercolo temporale (temporal operculum). (various references)

Manx		lonnagh (avenue). (various references)

Pig Latin		operculumay

Portuguese		opérculo temporal (temporal operculum). (various references)

Spanish		opérculo temporal (temporal operculum). (various references)

Turkish		operkulum, solungaç kapağı, kapakçık (valve, valvule). (various references)

Ukranian		оболонка (capsule, carcass, casing, casket, coma, covering, envelope, membrane, rind, sheath, shell, skin, tunic), зяброва кришка. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Numbers Chapter 19, Verse 15
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai pan skeuoV anewgmenon osa ouci desmon katadedetai ep' autw akaqarta estin
Latin	405	Vulgate	Vas quod non habuerit operculum nec ligaturam desuper inmundum erit
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	The vessel that hath not a couerynge, ne byndynge there aboue, shal be vnclene.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And all the vessels that be ope which haue no lyd nor couerynge apon them are vncleane.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Numbers Chapter 19, Verse 15
Cebuano	Ug ang tagsatagsa ka galamiton nga sa ibabaw niini walay tabon nga mohaum gayud, mahugaw man.
Croatian	Svaka otvorena posuda koja ne bude zatvorena poklopcem neka je neèista.
Danish	og ethvert åbent Kar, et, der ikke er bundet noget over, bliver urent.
Dutch	Ook alle open gereedschap, waarop geen deksel gebonden is, dat is onrein.
Finnish	Ja jokainen avoin astia, johon ei ole peitettä sidottu, olkoon saastainen.
French	Tout vase découvert, sur lequel il n`y aura point de couvercle attaché, sera impur.
German	Und alles offene Gerät, das keinen Deckel noch Band hat, ist unrein.
Haitian Creole	Tout veso ki pa kouvri ak yon kouvèti byen mare sou li p'ap ka sèvi pou moun ki nan kondisyon pou sèvi Bondye.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Semua kendi dan periuk yang tidak ada tutupnya juga menjadi najis.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Demikianpun segala bejana terbuka dan tiada tertutup yang terikat, ia itu najis adanya.
Italian	Ogni vaso scoperto, sul quale non sia un coperchio o una legatura, sar� immondo.
Maori	Ko nga oko katoa ano e puare kau ana, kahore nei i herea te taupoki, ka poke.
Norwegian	Og ethvert åpent kar som der ikke er bundet dekke over, er urent.
Portuguese	Também, todo vaso aberto, sobre que não houver pano atado, será imundo.
Rumanian	De asemenea, orice vas descoperit, care nu va avea un capac bine strkns pe el, va fi necurat.
Russian	ЧУСЛЙК ПФЛТЩФЩК УПУХ�", ЛПФПТЩК ОЕ П�'ЧСЪБО Й ОЕ � ПЛТЩФ, ОЕЮЙУФ.
Spanish	Toda vasija abierta que no tenga tapa ajustada será inmunda.
Swedish	Och alla öppna kärl, alla som icke hava stått överbundna, skola vara orena.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "operculum": operculums. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Operculum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: operculums. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "operculum" (pronounced 'O*per"cu*lum'): Acetabulum, Animalculum, Asylum, Capitulum, Cerebellum, Cingulum, Clum, Coagulum, Coelum, Collum, Corallum, Corniculum, Cribellum, Crotalum, Curriculum, Flabellum, flagellum, Fraenulum, Furculum, Glabellum, Hibernaculum, hilum, hoodlum, hordeolum, infundibulum, Lum, Mesophyllum, Opusculum, Osculum, Ossiculum, Ovulum, pabulum, Paradactylum, Paramylum, Peplum, Periculum, Petalum, Podophyllum, Postscutellum, Praeoperculum, Preoperculum, Propagulum, Receptaculum, Replum, Reticulum, Retinaculum, Rostellum, Rostrulum, Sacellum, Santalum. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-l-m-o-p-r-u-u"
	-2 letters: coupler, crumple.
	-3 letters: colure, compel, cormel, couple, croupe, cuprum, cupule, curule, lumper, pumelo, recoup, rumple, upcurl.
	-4 letters: celom, ceorl, clomp, clour, clump, comer, coper, coupe, croup, cruel, crump, cupel, lemur, locum, loper, loupe, lucre, moper, morel, mucor, mucro, oleum, plume, poler, proem, prole, puler, ulcer.
	-5 letters: cero, clop, clue, cole, come, comp, cope, core.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-l-m-o-p-r-u-u"
	+1 letter: operculums.
	+5 letters: supramolecular.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 70 65 72 63 75 6C 75 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01110101 01101100 01110101 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#99 &#117 &#108 &#117 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0070 0065 0072 0063 0075 006C 0075 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

498271846987788779

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Turks, turk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish;
乌克兰, for Ukranian;

Expression	Frequency per Day
operculum	8
operculum parietal	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Operculum

Definition: Operculum

Operculum

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Synonyms within Context: Operculum

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Crosswords: Operculum

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Bible Trace: Operculum

Matched Bible Translations: Operculum

Derivations & Misspellings: Operculum

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Operculum"

Anagrams: Operculum

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Operculum

4F 70 65 72 63 75 6C 75 6D

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01001111 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01110101 01101100 01110101 01101101

&#79 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#99 &#117 &#108 &#117 &#109

004F 0070 0065 0072 0063 0075 006C 0075 006D

498271846987788779

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Operculum