01 a. Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.
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Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.
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Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.(Zool.)
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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.(Biol.)