Definition of Oscula

1. Noun. (plural of osculum) ¹

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Definition of Oscula

1. osculum [n] - See also: osculum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oscula

oscine bird
oscinian
oscinine
oscitance
oscitances
oscitancies
oscitancy
oscitant
oscitantly
oscitate
oscitated
oscitates
oscitating
oscitation
oscitations
oscula (current term)
osculant
oscular
osculate
osculated
osculates
osculating
osculating circle
osculating orbit
osculation
osculations
osculator
osculatories
osculators
osculatory

Literary usage of Oscula

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1857)
"I have since frequently observed the same appearance when the oscula have ... I observed today that three new oscula had been opened about midway between ..."

2. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"Above brownish ; the first dorsal brown, black-edged, with one longitudinal series of blackish spots, and the second with two. Senegal. 3. Corvina oscula ..."

3. A Monograph of the British Spongiadæ by James Scott Bowerbank (1864)
"THE oscula. The oscula are the faecal orifices of the sponge. They are situated at the distal terminations of the single or concentrated excurrent canals of ..."

4. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"oscula are very often defended in various ways ; for instance, ... They may be restricted, however, to the upper surface, which bears also the oscula, ..."

5. A Last Ramble in the Classics by Hugh Edward Pigott Platt (1906)
"COTIDIANA oscula. The cotidiana oscula which Tiberius forbad by proclamation, Suet. Tib. 34, were, I suggested in Byways ..."

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