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