interoperculum

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   ichthyology: one of the bones in the opercular series of a bony fish, lying below the preopercle and between neighboring gill-cover bones

   A fringe of stiff hairs projected from the male fish's interoperculum.

A New Latin formation from inter-, 'between,' + operculum, 'cover or lid.' Zoologists use it for a component of the bony gill cover; interopercle is the adapted English synonym.

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