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Oscitances
- noun - an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom; "he could not suppress a yawn"; "the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop"; "he apologized for his oscitancy"
- drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning
Oscitation
- - The act of yawning or gaping.
Osculating
- verb - be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These species osculate"
- have at least three points in common with; "one curve osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate"
- touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.; "The newly married couple kissed"; "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room"
Osculation
- noun - (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent
- the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)
Osculators
- noun - someone who kisses
Osculatory
- - Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.
Osculatrix
- - A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.
Osmaterium
- - One of a pair of scent organs which the larvae of certain butterflies emit from the first body segment, either above or below.
Osmidrosis
- - The secretion of fetid sweat.