oscular
/ˈɒskjʊlə
/adjective
1 humorous Relating to kissing.The locus of affection is in oscular delivery....
- Their oscular activity was used as a promotional tool for Melbourne ACT-UP's World AIDS Day Kiss-In.
2 Zoology Relating to an osculum.Few long marginalia projecting from the oscular margin may belong to an oscular spicule rim....
- Circular parietal openings increase in size from the base to the oscular region.
- The sponge's basal part, oscular part and side part occur at different levels within the mud layers, which might have resulted from rapid burial.
Origin
Early 19th century: from Latin osculum 'mouth, kiss' (diminutive of os 'mouth') + -ar1.
- mediaeval
- media event
- media-friendly
- mediagenic
- media hype
- media junkie
- medial
- medial cadence
- medial lemniscus
- medial line
- medially
- medial malleolus
- medial moraine
- media luna
- medialward
- medialwards
- media mail
- media man
- media market
- media mix
- median
- median artery
- median eminence
- median lethal dose
- median line