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

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..

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

Pax :: Pax (n.) A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by the priest and then by the people, in mediaeval times; an osculatory. It is still used in communities, confraternities, etc..

Osculatory :: Osculatory (n.) Same as Pax, 2..

Semifloscular :: Semifloscular (a.) Semiflosculous.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Osculatory :: Osculatory (a.) Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.

Osculation :: Osculation (n.) The contact of one curve with another, when the number of consecutive points of the latter through which the former passes suffices for the complete determination of the former curve..

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

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