Osculant(a.) Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.
Osculant(a.) Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.
Osculant(a.) Intermediate in character, or on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc., of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link; interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.
Osculate(v. i.) To kiss one another; to kiss.
Osculate(v. i.) To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.
Osculate(v. i.) To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.
Osculate(v. t.) To kiss.
Osculate(v. t.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.
Osculated(imp. & p. p.) of Osculate
Osculating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Osculate
Osculation(n.) The act of kissing; a kiss.
Osculation(n.) The contact of one curve with another, when the number of consecutive points of the latter through which the former passes suffices for the complete determination of the former curve.
Oscule(n.) One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.
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