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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
osculate is a verb meaning "be intermediate between two taxonomic groups". It carries 3 recorded senses.
have at least three points in common with
“one curve osculates the other”
“these two surfaces osculate”
mathematics
touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
“The newly married couple kissed”
“She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for osculate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.