单词 | oscule |
释义 | osculen. Zoology. Now rare. 1. = osculum n. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > aperture oscule1835 oripore1846 oririme1846 the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > equivalent of the mouth mouthOE oscule1835 jaw1870 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > mouth > small mouth oscule1835 1835 J. Coldstream in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 42/1 By injecting milk into its gastric cavity [of Rhizostoma], the canals in its arms, and their oscules can be rendered visible. 1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 645 In other species the polyps are wholly retractile, and leave only a small polyp-pore or oscule, marking their position. 1856–8 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. I. 178 Cestoïdea.—Head usually furnished with fossettes or suctorial oscules. 1887 W. J. Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 416/1 While in some sponges the original oscule is lost, in others secondary independent openings, deceptively like oscules, are added. 1910 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 83 127 A little to one side of the summit is a small oscule about 0·4 mm. in diameter, and above the middle of the opposite aspect is an equatorial groove..extending a little more than half-way round the sponge. 1947 Ecol. Monogr. 17 36/2 No oscules could be made out, but obviously the surface is porous at the bases of the surface strands. 1967 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 252 51 Pillars and oscules in the Hippuritidae could not have been ‘siphonal’. 1996 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 6241/2 Criteria used in sponge specimen identification included gross morphology, color, oscule arrangement, encrusting shape and thickness, and the size and shape of siliceous spicules. ΚΠ 1887 W. J. Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 416/1 The opening..to the exterior being termed a false oscule or pseudostome. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1835 |
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