orifice

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Hence I can hardly doubt that the numerous glands crowded round the orifice are adapted to absorb matter from the putrid water, which will occasionally escape from bladders including decayed animals In order to test this conclusion, I experimented with various solutions on the glands.

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  1. noun An opening, especially to a cavity or passage of the body; a mouth or vent.

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  • Hence I can hardly doubt that the numerous glands crowded round the orifice are adapted to absorb matter from the putrid water, which will occasionally escape from bladders including decayed animals In order to test this conclusion, I experimented with various solutions on the glands. —  Insectivorous Plants
  • 'I'm not laughing at old Pendy, his orifice is a mere crevice comparatively. —  Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
  • The lips of the orifice are armed with many short, thick, sharply pointed, somewhat incurved hairs or teeth. —  Insectivorous Plants
  • The difference in B.t. u. in a pound of steam at the boiler pressure and after passing the orifice is the heat available for evaporating the moisture content and superheating the steam. —  Steam, Its Generation and Use
  • Hence I can hardly doubt that the numerous glands crowded round the orifice are adapted to absorb matter from the putrid water, which will occasionally escape from bladders including decayed animals. —  Insectivorous Plants
 

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opening ·  nozzle ·  cavity ·  aperture ·  slit ·  vent ·  crevice ·  sphincter ·  mucosa ·  outlet ·  duct ·  valve
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin ōrificium : Latin ōs, ōr-, mouth; see ōs- in Indo-European roots + Latin -ficium, a making, doing (from facere, to make; see dhē- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Formerly also orifis; from French orifice = Spanish Portuguese orificio = Italian orifizio, orificio, from Late Latin orificium, an opening, literally the making of a mouth, from L. os (or-), mouth, + facere, make.
 

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