osculant

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These osculant or aberrant forms occur most among parasitic groups, as the Stylopid�, Hippoboscid�, Pulicid�, Mallophaga, etc.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

As some few of the old and intermediate forms having transmitted to the present day descendants but little modified, these constitute our so-called osculant or aberrant groups.

From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles

OSCULANT.—Forms or groups apparently intermediate between and connecting other groups are said to be osculant.

From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles

A few old and intermediate parent-forms having occasionally transmitted to the present day descendants but little modified, will give to us our so-called osculant or aberrant groups.

From On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Darwin, Charles