operculate

1. 1.

   having an operculum

   Synonymsoperculated

Questions about operculate

What does operculate mean?

operculate means "having an operculum".

How many syllables are in operculate?

operculate has 4 syllables: o-per-cu-late. The stress falls on "per".

What is another word for operculate?

Close synonyms include operculated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is operculate a common word?

operculate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.