interosculant
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interosculant (comparative more interosculant, superlative most interosculant)
- Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculant circles
- (biology) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Uniting two groups; said of certain genera which connect family groups, or of species that connect genera.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “interosculant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)