Osculant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Biology Intermediate in characteristics between two similar or related taxonomic groups.
  • adj. Closely adhering or joined; embracing.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
  • adj. Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
  • adj. Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.
  • adj. Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.
  • adj. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Kissing.
  • In biology, touching or intermediate between two or more groups; inosculant; intergrading: said of genera, families, etc., which connect or link others together.
  • Adhering closely; embracing: applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.
  • n. In mathematics, the invariant whose vanishing signifies that the quantics all vanish, and that there is a syzygetic relation between the tangential qualitics.
    • Word Usage
    "A few old and intermediate parent-forms having occasionally transmitted to the present day descendants but little modified, will give to us our so-called osculant or aberrant groups."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    kissing    clinging    embracing    interosculant   
     
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