Crossword-Solution: OSCULANT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Osculant | a. | Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging. |
| Osculant | a. | Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars. |
| Osculant | a. | 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. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OSCULANT | anagram | COLANUTS |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with OSCULANT (4)
OSCULANT.—Forms or groups apparently intermediate between and connecting other groups are said to be osculant.
Trans." [1862], XXIV., 1863.); at least I am sure in the animal kingdom monographs cannot be too long on the osculant groups.
These osculant or aberrant forms occur most among parasitic groups, as the Stylopidæ, Hippoboscidæ, Pulicidæ, Mallophaga, etc.
Some of these orders are connected by aberrant and osculant families or groups, which have by other authors been variously ranked as independent orders, but which, following Westwood substantially, I have considered, for convenience, as suborders.