osculant

Kissing.

In biology, touching or intermediate between two or more groups; inosculant; intergrading: said of genera, families, etc., which connect or link others together.

Adhering closely; embracing: applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.

In mathematics, the invariant whose vanishing signifies that the quantics all vanish, and that there is a syzygetic relation between the tangential qualitics.

Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.

Adhering closely; embracing; — applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.

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.

Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.

Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.

Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.