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Definition of Oscular
1. pertaining to the mouth [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oscular
Literary usage of Oscular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1882)
"In this case the edge is said to be oscular* (C) The two biplanes may coincide,
when we have what may be called a unode Ut, which reduces the class of the ..."
2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"regions; first, at the oscular rim, resulting in elongation of the tubular body;
and secondly, at certain spots on the surface of the body, leading to the ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (1893)
"These spicules form a kind of vertical palisade inside the margin of the osculum,
their outer ends projecting to form a feebly developed oscular fringe. ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"The walls of this oscular cavity are formed upon the same plan as the external
wall of the sponge; and the stars, which are even more conspicuous than those ..."
5. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1869)
"The walls of this oscular cavity are formed upon the same plan as the external
wall of the sponge, and the stars, which are even more conspicuous than those ..."
6. Catalogue of the Fossil Sponges in the Geological Department of the British ...by George Jennings Hinde by George Jennings Hinde (1883)
"Showing the upper or inner surface of the wall with the oscular apertures. ...
A specimen with convolute walls, showing minute oscular apertures on the ..."
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