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Osculant (medicine)


osculant


1. Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.

2. <zoology> Adhering closely; embracing; applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.

3. <biology> 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.

Origin: L. Osculans, -antis, p. Pr. Of osculari to kiss. See Osculate.

Source: Websters Dictionary