Osculant Definition

äskyələnt
adjective
Intermediate; linking; shared.
Webster's New World
Gripping or adhering together.
Webster's New World

Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.

Wiktionary

(zoology) Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.

Wiktionary

(biology) Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.

The genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.
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Origin of Osculant

  • Latin osculans, osculantis, present participle of osculari to kiss. See osculate.

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