osculum

n. 排水孔, 出水口, 吸附器官, 吸盘 [医] 小口, 细孔

词形变化

oscula 复数 oscula

别名

oscule

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small opening or orifice.

    生物 动物学
  2. 2.

    One of the suckers on the head of a tapeworm.

    废旧 生物 动物学
  3. 3.

    The main opening in a sponge from which water is expelled.

    生物 动物学

    2012, Sally P. Lees, April Hill, The Physiology and Molecular Biology of Sponge Tissues, Mikel A. Becerro, Maria J. Uriz, Manuel Maldonado, Xavier Turon (editors), Michael Lesser (series editor), Advances in Marine Biology 62: Advances in Sponge Science, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 30, Oscula are also thought to arise initially from a single porocyte (Weissenfels, 1980), but how they coordinate with other porocytes to form a larger osculum is still unclear.

相关短语

osculum infame

词源

From Latin ōsculum (“little mouth”).

来源：wiktionary