osculant
adj
High School
1
Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
2
Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
3
Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
4
Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
5
Tangent, touching at a single point.
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