📚 noun • entry_id 43834
osculum
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ósculo
The main opening in a sponge from which water is expelled.
I left them in that condition, and at 7 o'clock examined them again, when I found them still quiescent; but one of the two large groups of oscula and the new one were entirely clos…
Waste water was expelled through a single osculum at about 8.5 cm per second – more than eight thousand times as fast as it circulated in the chambers and 85 times as fast as it en…
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