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9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a hard flap serving as a cover for (a) the gill slits in fishes or (b) the opening of the shell in certain gastropods when the body is retracted
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Latin operiō Latin -culum Latin operculumbor. English operculum Borrowed from Latin operculum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- clumper 13
- crumple 13
- compel 12
- comper 12
- cuprum 12
- upcome 12
- coupler 11
- clomp 11
- clump 11
- crump 11
- cormel 10
- couple 10