Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cast the operculum; dehisce: said of some liverworts.
- In botany, having lost the operculum: applied to the capsule of a moss or liverwort after the operculum has fallen off.
- 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having the
lid removed; said of thecapsules ofmosses .
Etymologies
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de- + operculate?
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bilby commented on the word deoperculate
To turn off a coffee machine?
September 7, 2021