oscula- +

1. Impregnation (fertilization) by external contact, without intromission (insertion or introduction of one part into another).
2. Sexual impregnation by contact only; wind-pollination.

To kiss affectionately or warmly.

To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly.

1. To join and blend with something else, or to join or blend one thing with another.
2. To unite by openings, as arteries in anastomosis.
3. To connect or join so as to become or make continuous, as fibers; to blend.
4. To unite (blood vessels, nerve fibers, or ducts) by small openings.
5. To unite intimately.
6. To unite or join together; as in continuity.

1. Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles.
2. Uniting two groups; said of certain genera which connect family groups, or of species that connect genera.

1. To kiss together, to touch.
2. To have the character of, or to lie between, two distinct groups.
3. To form a connecting link, as between objects, genera, etc.
4. Etymology: from Latin osculat-, "kissed"; from the verb osculari, from osculum, "little mouth" or "kiss".

1. Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.
2. A reference to a close embrace or long kiss.
3. Adhering closely; embracing; applied to certain creeping animals; such as, caterpillars.
4. Intermediate in character, or on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc, of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link.

A fear or dread of kissing.

Relating to the mouth or activities of the mouth: such as, kissing: "There was oscular stimulation as they embraced and kissed."

1. To touch with the lips or to press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
2. To touch with the lips or to press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.: "The newly married couple kissed", "Her grandfather kissed her on the forehead when she entered the room."
3. To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact.
4. From Latin osculari, from osculum, "kiss"; literally, "little mouth" diminutive of os, "mouth".

1. The act of kissing.
2. A kiss.
3. Close contact.
4. In mathematics, a contact, as between two curves or surfaces, at three or more common points.

Someone who kisses; such as, "He was a politician known as an inveterate osculator of babies."

1. Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing: "The osculatory ceremony."
2. In church history, a tablet or board, with the picture of Christ or the virgin, etc. which is kissed by the priest and then delivered to the people for the same purpose.
3. An osculatory circle, in geometry, is a circle having the same curvature with any curve at any given point.

1. The mouthlike opening in a sponge, used to expel water.
2. One of the excurrent (projecting beyond the tip) openings of sponges.

Sexual arousal from kissing.