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suboˈpercular, a. (n.) Ichth. [f. next + -ar1.] Designating a bone in the lower part of the operculum of a fish; pertaining to the suboperculum.
1854Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 178 [The operculum] consists of four bones; the one articulated to the tympanic pedicle is called ‘preopercular’,..the other three are, counting downwards, the ‘opercular’,..the ‘subopercular’,..the ‘interopercular’. 1897Günther in Mary Kingsley's W. Africa 699 Subopercular armature strong. |