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Definition of Osculant
Os´cu`lant | a. | 1. | | | 1. | Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging. | | 2. | (Zool.) Adhering closely; embracing; - applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars. | | 3. | (Biol.) 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. |
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