Meanings
adverbopercularly (not comparable)
- not comparableIn opercular fashion.
Flight to all models was hypothesized, in a graduated decrease in strength from the model with opercularly placed eyes to the single-eyed model.
1987, Carol Lee Tyler, Individual Recognition in Jewel Fish, page 76
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opercularly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/opercularly
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“opercularly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/opercularly. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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