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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One of the suckers on the head of a tapeworm.
2. isim The main opening in a sponge from which water is expelled.

   “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 entered the sponge in the first place.”