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| 1. | Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging. | |
| 2. | (Zool.) 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; |