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Floscularian :: Floscularian (n.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk..

Osculation :: Osculation (n.) The contact of one curve with another, when the number of consecutive points of the latter through which the former passes suffices for the complete determination of the former curve..

Inosculating :: Inosculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inosculat.

Adosculation :: Adosculation (n.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission..

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. t.) To unite intimately; to cause to become as one.

Interosculate :: Interosculate (v. i. & t.) To kiss together to touch. See Osculate.

Evolute :: Evolute (n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent..

Anastomose :: Anastomose (v. i.) To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins..

Osculation :: Osculation (n.) The act of kissing; a kiss.

Pax :: Pax (n.) A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by the priest and then by the people, in mediaeval times; an osculatory. It is still used in communities, confraternities, etc..

Interosculant :: Interosculant (a.) Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles..

Osculant :: 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..

Semifloscular :: Semifloscular (a.) Semiflosculous.

Osculated :: Osculated (imp. & p. p.) of Osculat.

Deosculate :: Deosculate (v. t.) To kiss warmly.

Osculate :: Osculate (v. t.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2..

Osculant :: Osculant (a.) Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars..

Osculate :: Osculate (v. i.) To kiss one another; to kiss.

Inosculated :: Inosculated (imp. & p. p.) of Inosculat.

Osculate :: Osculate (v. t.) To kiss.

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