Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Interosculating; connecting by or as if by osculation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Mutually touching or intersecting.
  • adjective (Biol.) Uniting two groups; -- said of certain genera which connect family groups, or of species that connect genera. See Osculant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Mutually touching or intersecting.
  • adjective biology Uniting two groups; said of certain genera which connect family groups, or of species that connect genera.

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ osculant

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