connecting or linking, as a group of animals transitional between two other species, families, classes, etc
Also: annectant
Word origin
[1820–30; ‹ L annectent- (s. of annectēns tying to, prp. of annectere), equiv. to an-an-2 + nect- bind + -ent--ent]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blouse, boomerang, exogenous, morphology, tetrapod-ent is a suffix, equivalent to -ant, appearing in nouns and adjectives of Latin origin. Other words that use the affix-ent include: accident, different