exsanguious

exsanguious

English

Etymology

From Latin exsanguis, from ex (“out”) + sanguis, sanguinis (“blood”). Compare exsanguineous.

Adjective

exsanguious (comparative more exsanguious, superlative most exsanguious)

1. Destitute of blood.
   • Sir Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

     The third is the paucity of blood observed in this animal, scarce at all to be found but in the eye, and about the heart; which defect being observed, inclined some into thoughts that the ayr was a sufficient maintenance for these exsanguious parts.

2. (zoology) Without true, or red, blood.

   Insects are exsanguious.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 exsanguious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)