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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.
Osmiridium
- noun - a hard and corrosion resistant mineral that is a natural alloy of osmium and iridium (usually containing small amounts of rhodium and platinum); used in needles and pen nibs etc.
Osphradium
- - The olfactory organ of some Mollusca. It is connected with the organ of respiration.
Ossiculate
- adjective - pertaining to the ossicles in the middle ear