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Interosculant
Interosculant In`ter*os"cu*lant, a. 1. Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles. 2. (Biol.) Uniting two groups; -- said of certain genera which connect family groups, or of species that connect genera. See Osculant.
Osculant
Osculant Os"cu*lant, a. [L. osculans, -antis, p. pr. of osculari to kiss. See Osculate.] 1. Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars. 3. (Biol.) 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.

Meaning of Sculan from wikipedia

- Nū wē sculan herian Metodes mihte weorc Wuldorfæder; ēce Dryhten, Hē ǣrest gesceōp heofon tō hrōfe, ða middangeard, ēce Dryhten, fīrum foldan, / heofonrīces...
- among the most frequent verbs in the language. They are magan ("can"), sċulan ("should/must/to owe"), mōtan ("may"), þurfan ("to need"), witan ("to know")...
- from sceal and sceolde, respectively the present and preterite forms of sculan ("owe, be obliged"); and will and would are from wille and wolde, respectively...
- gefyld Augustinus witegunge. þe he cwæþ. Gif Wealas nellað sibbe wið us. hi sculan æt Seaxana handa farwurþan. Þar man sloh eac .cc. preosta ða comon ðyder...
- noun Schuld (the earliest form is Sculd) is derived from the abstract verb sculan (the modern form is soll, to be owed). Originally the word denoted a financial...