Osculant
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Osculant
Adjective
- Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
- Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
- Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
"The genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera."
- Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
- Tangent, touching at a single point.
Noun
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