suppurant
English
editEtymology
editAt least superficially suppure + -ant. Ultimately from Latin suppūrō.
Noun
editsuppurant (plural suppurants)
- (medicine) A suppurative.
Adjective
editsuppurant (not comparable)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “suppurant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
editParticiple
editsuppurant
Further reading
edit- “suppurant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.