suppurant

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

suppurant (plural suppurants)

1. (archaic, medicine) A suppurative.

suppurant (not comparable)

1. Producing or exuding pus.

   Synonyms: purulent, pussy

   a suppurant wound

• “suppurant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /sy.py.ʁɑ̃/

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suppurant

1. present participle of suppurer

suppurant (feminine suppurante, masculine plural suppurants, feminine plural suppurantes)

1. suppurant, suppuratory, suppurating (producing or exuding pus)

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