1. Be intermediate between two taxonomic groups
   "These species osculate" 
2. Have at least three points in common with
   "one curve osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate" 
3. Touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
   - kiss, buss [N. Amer]

Derived forms: osculated, osculates, osculating

See also: osculation, osculator

Type of: be, share, touch

Encyclopedia: Osculate

• Lower Paleolithic
• Lower Peninsula
• lower rank
• lower respiratory infection
• lower respiratory tract
• lower respiratory tract smear
• Lower Saxony
• lower status
• Lower Tunguska
• lower-case letter
• lower-middle-class
• Lower-Normandy
• lower-ranking
• lowercase
• lowerclassman
• lowered
• lowering
• loweringly
• lowermost
• lowery
• lowest
• lowest common denominator
• lowest common multiple
• lowland
• lowland burrowing treefrog