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

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

Anastomose :: Anastomose (v. i.) To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins..

Osculate :: Osculate (v. i.) To touch closely. See Osculation, 2..

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..

Osculate :: Osculate (v. i.) To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant..

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

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

Osculating :: Osculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Osculat.

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

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

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

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

Semifloscular :: Semifloscular (a.) Semiflosculous.

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..

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

Osculation :: Osculation (n.) The act of kissing; a kiss.

Umbilicus :: Umbilicus (n.) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.

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

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