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 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.
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.
Osculations
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Oscule(n.)
- One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.
Oscules
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