Dictionary entry

Osculate (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Os″cu‐late, v. i. 1. To kiss one another; to kiss.

2. (Geom.) To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.

3. (Biol.) To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.