osculum

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small opening or orifice.; One of the suckers on the head of a tapeworm. obsolete
  2. A small opening or orifice.; The main opening in a sponge from which water is expelled.
    — I left them in that condition, and at 7 o'clock examined them again, when I found them still quiescent; but one of the two large groups of oscula and the new one were entirely closed, while the other osculum at the largest end of the sponge had opened to the extent of about one-third of its diameter, and the membrane presented the appearance of a series of lines or corrugations radiating from the centre to the circumference.

词形变化

oscula plural

词汇关系

衍生词
osculum infame

词源

Etymology tree
Latin ōs
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
Latin -culum
Latin ōsculumbor.
English osculum
Borrowed from Latin ōsculum (“little mouth”).
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