osculant

  1. Adjective.  Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
  2. Adjective.  (zoology) Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
  3. Adjective.  (biology) Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.

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