Osculum

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  • noun. A large opening in a sponge, through which water is expelled.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In sponges, a mouth or principal exhalent aperture; one of the orifices by which water is expelled. See cuts under Porifera and Spongilla.
  • noun. One of the suckers, bothria, or fossettes on the head of a tapeworm, by means of which the animal attaches itself to its host.
  • noun. A pax: apparently an erroneous abbreviation for osculatorium.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Same as oscule.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the main opening in a sponge from which water is expelled.
    • Word Usage
    "Ironically, we have no problem in the Roman categories of 'osculum' the kiss of friendship on the face or cheeks and 'basium' the kiss of affection on the lips, though the stricture, it looks like, applies to 'suavium' the lovers 'kiss of the lip-to-lip variety."
    cross-reference
    false osulum  
    variant
    oscule  
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