adosculation

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin adosculari, adosculatum (“to kiss”). See osculate.

Noun edit

adosculation (uncountable)

(biology) impregnation by external contact, without intromission

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “adosculation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)