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.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin
OSCULANT.—Forms or groups apparently intermediate between and connecting other groups are said to be osculant.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin
A few old and intermediate parent-forms having occasionally transmitted to the present day descendants but little modified, will give to us our so-called osculant or aberrant groups.
From On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin
