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operculated
1. Closed by a lid or cover, as the capsules of mosses.
2. Having an operculum, or an apparatus for protecting the gills; a reference to shells (aquatic creatures whose external coverings consist of shells) and of fish.
3. Etymology: from Latin operculatus, operculare, "to furnish with a lid", from operculum, "lid, cover".
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