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osculant meaning in Tamil

இடைநிலையன்

osculant in Tamil: இடைநிலையன். In English, osculant means adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.

Tamil words for osculant

இடைநிலையன்

English meaning of osculant

  1. adjective Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
  2. adjective Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
  3. adjective Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
  4. adjective Tangent, touching at a single point.

Full definition of osculant

osculant in a sentence

  • The genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.

Synonyms of osculant

Questions about osculant in Tamil

What is the meaning of osculant in Tamil?
Osculant in Tamil is இடைநிலையன்.
osculant என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
Osculant: இடைநிலையன்.
What does osculant mean in English?
Osculant means adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.

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Tamil words from Tamil Wiktionary: osculant (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: osculant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Tamil words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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