Usually means: Merging or fitting closely together.
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  1. adosculation: Merriam-Webster
  2. adosculation: Wordnik
  3. adosculation: Wiktionary
  4. Adosculation, adosculation: Dictionary.com
  5. Adosculation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. adosculation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Adosculation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. adosculation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. adosculation: FreeDictionary.org
  10. adosculation: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. Adosculation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. adosculation: Merriam-Webster

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▸ noun:  (biology, botany) impregnation by external contact, without intromission

Similar:
dispermy, cytoadhesion, exozoochory, amplection, allochory, hygrochasy, apposition, apophallation, chalazogamy, zoidogamy, more...

Opposite:
abhorrence, disgust, aversion, hatred

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Similar:
dispermy, cytoadhesion, exozoochory, amplection, allochory, hygrochasy, apposition, apophallation, chalazogamy, zoidogamy, more...

Opposite:
abhorrence, disgust, aversion, hatred



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