osculant.
Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
Meaning & usage
Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
The genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.
osculant groups
Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
Tangent, touching at a single point.
Where this word comes from
From Latin osculans, osculantis, present participle of osculari (“to kiss”). See osculate.
The point at which two tangent curves touch.
The condition that the solution to a set of simultaneous quantics, is also the solution of the corresponding set of tangential quantics.
a form of tacinvariant of hypersurfaces that have a point in common
Where this word comes from
From Latin osculans, osculantis, present participle of osculari (“to kiss”). See osculate.
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