operculate in English
adjective
[əʊ'pɜrkjələt /ɒ'pɜːkjʊl-]
having a lid-like structure (Anatomy, Botany, and Zoology)
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1. In discoid fungi the Ascus may be operculate, opening with a lid or similar discharge mechanism, and relatively thin-walled, or it may be inoperculate and thick-walled.
2. Zygorhizidium affluens Canter and Z. planktonicum Canter have monocentric operculate sporangia and zoospores which have single lipid globules to which the cell nucleus and single mitochondrion are closely adpressed.