Operculum: alternatives and connections

A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.

Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.

Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf.

Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.

The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.

An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and…

Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.

The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spir…

the outer covering of protein surrounding the nucleic acid of a virus

Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to whic…

One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.

A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.

The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a…

One who, or that which, hops.

A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book.

A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elabora…