Osculatrixes

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Osculatrix \Os`cu*la"trix\, n.; pl. {Osculatrixes}. [NL.]
     (Geom.)
     A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point,
     is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater
     number of successive differential coefficients of the
     ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any


     other curve of the same kind.
     [1913 Webster]