exsanguious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

Archaic

adj

Without red blood.

Archaic

"exsanguious liver"
"The third is the paucitie 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 ayre was a ſufficient maintenance for theſe exauguious^([sic – meaning exanguious]) parts."
"Insects are exsanguious."

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

more exsanguious (comparative) most exsanguious (superlative) exanguious (alternative)

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