adjective: Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
adjective: (zoology) Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
adjective: (biology) Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
adjective: (Bantu linguistics) Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
noun: (mathematics) a form of tacinvariant of hypersurfaces that have a point in common