- Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging. - Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain
creeping animals, as caterpillars. - 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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