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What does osculant mean?

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Adjective
  1. Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
  2. (zoology) Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
  3. (biology) Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
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The genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.
This is an osculant Order, and is distinguished from the other Aptera L. in undergoing a regular metamorphosis.
In this scheme the osculant classes are those placed between the circles.
If each circle is regarded as absolute, the series is broken, though the osculant groups connect the circular ones.

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