OSCULANT

Definition: OSCULANT

OSCULANT

Adjective

1. Intermediate in character, or on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc., of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link; interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.

2. Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.

3. Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "OSCULANT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references)

Etymology: Osculant \Os"cu*lant\, adjective. [Latin expression osculans, -antis, present participle of osculari to kiss. See Osculate.]. (references)

Crosswords: OSCULANT

Albanian

që përputhet (coincident, conforming, consentaneous, consentient), që ngjitet me, që i prek. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مذبذب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сходен (akin, alike, analogous, cognate, congruent, congruous, like, similar), междинен (intercurrent, intermediary, intermediate, medial, median, mediate, medium, transitional), промеждутъчен (in between, interim, interjacent, intermediate, mediate, transitional), докосващ се, допирен. (various references)

French

oscillatoire (oscillatory). (various references)

German

Schmiegungskurve (osculant curve). (various references)

Hungarian

simuló (enclitic, oscular, osculatory), érintkező (collateral, interlocking, stud). (various references)

Manx

paagagh (osculatory). (various references)

Pig Latin

osculantay.(various references)

Portuguese

que se tocam, com pontos de contato, com caracteres comuns. (various references)

Russian 

соприкасающийся (contiguous), касающийся, промежуточный (in between, interim, intermediate, interproximal, interstitial, mediate, neutral, off-year, transitional), примыкающий (adjacent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

priljubljen (skintight), na granici između dve vrste, koji ljubi. (various references)

Spanish

tocante (referring to this, toward, towards). (various references)

Turkish

yaslanan, dokunan, öpen. (various references)

Ukrainian

стичний (osculatory), який охоплю�", який приляга�", сполучний (binding, compatible, connecting, connective), проміжний (in between, interim, intermediary, interstitial, mediate, neuter, neutral, transitional, transitive), дотичний (osculatory, tangent). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: conatus, consult, locusta, talcous, toucans.

-2 letters: cantos, cantus, clonus, clouts, consul, costal, cotans, counts, cutlas, locust, octans, oscula, santol, sultan, talons, tolans, toucan.

-3 letters: altos, ascot, aunts, autos, calos, canso, canst, canto, cants, cauls, clans, clast, clons, clots, clout, coals, coast, coats, colas, colts, conus, costa, cotan, count, cults, loans, locus, lotas, lotus.

+1 letter: calutrons, consulate, suctional.

+2 letters: cantaloups, coagulants, consulates, consultant, convulsant, gluconates, inoculants, inoculates, inosculate, nucleators, osculating, osculation, postlaunch, postulancy, ultrasonic.

+3 letters: allocutions, cantaloupes, communalist, construable, consultancy, consultants, conventuals, convulsants, copulations, cumulations, cutaneously, flocculants, glauconites, inculcators, inoculators, inosculated, inosculates, maculations, novaculites, nucleations, osculations, outbalances, outclassing, peculations, sacculation, sansculotte, speculation, spiculation, tenaciously, ulcerations, ultrasonics.

+4 letters: acidulations, anacoluthons, antinucleons, auscultation, calculations, calumniators, circulations, coagulations, communalists, confabulates, constabulary, consultation, consultative, consummately, contagiously, counterblast, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, countervails, crenulations, culminations, cultivations, cupellations, discountable, duplications, ejaculations, elucidations, emasculation, enucleations, equinoctials, exculpations, fluctuations, granulocytes, incautiously, inculcations, inculpations, inoculations, inosculating, inosculation, insouciantly, journalistic, lubrications, lucubrations, malfunctions, noctambulist, noncustodial, nucleotidase, occultations, postulancies, proconsulate, publications, reinoculates, reluctations, sacculations, sansculottes, sansculottic, speculations, spiculations, supplication, unhistorical, untouchables, vacuolations, vesiculation.