suppurant

English

Etymology

At least superficially suppure +‎ -ant. Ultimately from Latin suppūrō.

Noun

suppurant (plural suppurants)

1. (medicine) A suppurative.

Adjective

suppurant (not comparable)

1. Producing or exuding pus.

   Synonyms: purulent, pussy

   a suppurant wound

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Participle

suppurant

1. present participle of suppurer

Further reading

• “suppurant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.