interosculate

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ osculate

Verb

interosculate (third-person singular simple present interosculates, present participle interosculating, simple past and past participle interosculated)

  1. To connect together as if kissing; to touch barely.
  2. (biology) To have the character of, or to lie between, two distinct groups.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “interosculate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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