perspirative

perspirative

English

Etymology

From the participle stem of Latin perspīrāre (“to perspire”).

Adjective

perspirative (not comparable)

1. (now rare) Performing the act of perspiration or sweating; perspiratory. [from 18th c.]
   • 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, p. 164:

     The difficulty of injecting vegetable vessels seems to shew that their perspirative pores are much less than those of animals […] .