osculant
/'ɒskjulәnt/
📖 中文释义
- a. 固着的, 接吻的, 中间型的
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- a. Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.
- a. Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain
- creeping animals, as caterpillars.
- 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.