Vocabulary : Oscines to Osculant

Oscines : Singing birds; a group of the Passeres, having numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.
Oscinian : One of the Oscines, or singing birds. ;; Any one of numerous species of dipterous files of the family Oscinidae.
Oscinine : Of or pertaining to the Oscines.
Oscitancy : The act of gaping or yawning. ;; Drowsiness; dullness; sluggishness.
Oscitant : Yawning; gaping. ;; Sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless.

Oscitantly : In an oscitant manner.
Oscitate : To gape; to yawn.
Oscitation : The act of yawning or gaping.
Oscula : of Osculum
Osculant : Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging. ;; Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars. ;; 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; interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.

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