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Definition of Oscula
1. osculum [n] - See also: osculum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oscula
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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