Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, having lost the operculum: applied to the capsule of a moss or liverwort after the operculum has fallen off.
  • To cast the operculum; dehisce: said of some liverworts.
  • Having an operculum that does not spontaneously separate from the sporophore, as certain mosses.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses.

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  • adjective botany Having the lid removed; said of the capsules of mosses.

Etymologies

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de- +‎ operculate?

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