ADOSCULATION

Source: 524, 566, 567

ADOSCULA'TION, noun [Latin ad and osculatio, a kissing, from osculum, a kiss, or mouth.]The impregnation of plants by the falling of the farina on the pistils.Adosculation is also defined to be the inserting of one part of a plant into another.

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adosculation. Adosculation, n. the impregnation of plants by the farin which falls on the pistils

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Ad‐os″cu‐la″tion (�), n. [[L. adosculari, adosculatum, to kiss. See Osculate.]] (Biol.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.