contiguous

adjective ~ being in contact: touching; also: next, adjoining

When I looked out the airplane windows, all I could see below us was an expanse of contiguous wheat fields.

Did you know? –> You probably aren’t surprised to learn that the word “contact” is a relative of “contiguous,” but would you believe that “contagion” or “contingent” are also kin? All of those words derive from the Latin contingere, meaning “to have contact with.” The words “contact” and “continguous” are fairly easy to connect with contingere, but what about the other two? In its early days in English, “contingent” was used as a synonym of “touching.” And if you remember that touching something can pollute it (and that another meaning of contingere was “to pollute”), “contagion” logically ties in, too.

Merriam-Webster’s 365 New Words Calendar, www.pageaday.com, Workman Publishing