ora-, or-, orat-; os- +
(Latin: oris, mouth, face; opening, entrance; talk, speak, say)
osculatory (adjective), more osculatory, most osculatory
1. Of or pertaining to the act of kissing: The osculatory tradition is when couples kiss at the end of the wedding ceremony.
2. In church history, a reference to a tablet or board, with the picture of Christ or the virgin, etc.: An osculatory tablet is kissed by the priest and then delivered to the people for the same purpose.
3. In geometry, relating to a circle that has the same curvature with any other curve at any given point: Mr. Smart showed his students an osculatory example on a transparency and explained that the point at which two branches of a curve have a common tangent, each branch extending in both directions of the tangent
2. In church history, a reference to a tablet or board, with the picture of Christ or the virgin, etc.: An osculatory tablet is kissed by the priest and then delivered to the people for the same purpose.
3. In geometry, relating to a circle that has the same curvature with any other curve at any given point: Mr. Smart showed his students an osculatory example on a transparency and explained that the point at which two branches of a curve have a common tangent, each branch extending in both directions of the tangent
The mouthlike opening of a sea sponge which is used to expel water; osculum: Jenny's father showed her a sea sponge with an oscule to ejecte water.
1. An opening like a mouth, through which a sponge expels water: In her biology class, Ivy watched a documentary film showing a sponge ejecting water from its osculum
2. A minute opening: An osculum can be a little orifice.
2. A minute opening: An osculum can be a little orifice.
per os; P.O.; p.o. (adverb) (not comparable)
Referring to how something goes through the mouth: The pharmaceutical instruction stated that the medicine was to be administered per os, of by swallowing it.
The concluding part of a speech or discourse: The peroration that Mr. Atherton held, recapitulated the principal points of the issue with great earnestness and force.
suboral (adjective) (not comparable)
Referring to something under or below the mouth: When looking in the mirror, Lisa noticed some suboral pimples on her chin which were quite painful.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.":
cit-;
clam-;
dic-;
fa-;
-farious;
glosso-;
glotto-;
lalo-;
linguo-;
locu-;
logo-;
loqu-;
mythico-;
-ology;
-phasia;
-phemia;
phon-;
phras-;
Quotes: Language,Part 1;
Quotes: Language, Part 2;
Quotes: Language, Part 3;
serm-;
tongue;
voc-.
A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, indirectly, or partially with: "opening, hole, cavity, tract, tube": alveolo-; antro-; anu-; celo-; coelio-; concho-; fenestra-; hernio-; hiat-; meato-; parieto-; poro-; pyl-, pyle-; pylor-; sphinctero-; splanchn-; stomato-; syringo-; uretero-; urethro-; vagino-; ventricul-.
