osculant (English, adj)
expansion: osculant (not comparable)
Senses:
glosses: Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
tags: not-comparable
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
tags: not-comparable
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
tags: not-comparable
qualifier: Bantu linguistics
glosses: Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
tags: not-comparable
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Tangent, touching at a single point.
tags: not-comparable
Forms: