osculant

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Some of these orders are connected by aberrant and osculant families or groups, which have by other authors been variously ranked as independent orders, but which, following Westwood substantially, I have considered, for convenience, as suborders.

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These osculant or aberrant forms occur most among parasitic groups, as the Stylopid�, Hippoboscid�, Pulicid�, Mallophaga, etc.

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Osculant: intermediate in character between two groups or series.

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OSCULANT.—Forms or groups apparently intermediate between and connecting other groups are said to be osculant.

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As some few of the old and intermediate forms having transmitted to the present day descendants but little modified, these constitute our so-called osculant or aberrant groups.

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