Adosculation :: Adosculation (n.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission..

Chiaro-oscuro :: Chiaro-oscuro (n.) The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color..

Chiaro-oscuro :: Chiaro-oscuro (n.) The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. Clair-obscur.

Chiaroscurist :: Chiaroscurist (n.) A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color.

Chiaroscuro :: Chiaroscuro (n.) Alt. of Chiaro-oscur.

Deosculate :: Deosculate (v. t.) To kiss warmly.

Exosculate :: Exosculate (v. t.) To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly..

Floscular :: Floscular (a.) Flosculous.

Floscularian :: Floscularian (n.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk..

Floscule :: Floscule (n.) A floret.

Flosculous :: Flosculous (a.) Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. i.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose..

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. i.) To intercommunicate; to interjoin.

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. t.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body..

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. t.) To unite intimately; to cause to become as one.

Inosculated :: Inosculated (imp. & p. p.) of Inosculat.

Inosculating :: Inosculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inosculat.

Inosculation :: Inosculation (n.) The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc..

Interosculant :: Interosculant (a.) Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles..

Interosculant :: Interosculant (a.) Uniting two groups; -- said of certain genera which connect family groups, or of species that connect genera. See Osculant..

Interosculate :: Interosculate (v. i. & t.) To kiss together to touch. See Osculate.

Interosculate :: Interosculate (v. i. & t.) To have the character of, or to lie between, two distinct groups..

Mesoscutum :: Mesoscutum (n.) The scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect. See Illust. of Butterfly.

Oscula :: Oscula (pl. ) of Osculu.

Osculant :: Osculant (a.) Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging..

Osculant :: Osculant (a.) Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars..

Osculant :: Osculant (a.) 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..

Osculate :: Osculate (v. t.) To kiss.

Osculate :: Osculate (v. t.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2..

Osculate :: Osculate (v. i.) To kiss one another; to kiss.

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