menstruator

English

Alternative forms

• menstruater

Etymology

menstruate +‎ -or

Noun

menstruator (plural menstruators)

1. A person who menstruates.
   • 2011, Chris Bobel, Samantha Kwan, Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules:

     Today she would probably be diagnosed with menorrhagia or Von Willbrand disease, a rare blood-clotting disorder, but then, she would have been viewed as a perpetual menstruator, eternally unclean, contaminating, and forbidden to have contact with any man.

   • 2018, Nadya Okamoto, Period Power, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 132:

     The most obvious population of menstruators affected by period poverty is homeless women, who struggle to afford any basic necessity, including shelter. And as we just discussed, period poverty for homeless women can be dangerous and detrimental to their health.

Anagrams

• Armentrouts

Latin

Verb

mēnstruātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of mēnstruō