Sanguinolent

//sæŋˈɡwɪnələnt// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Containing or tinged with blood.

    "On making a larger opening there issued three or four pints of a very sanguinolent fluid."

Example

More examples

"On making a larger opening there issued three or four pints of a very sanguinolent fluid."

Etymology

From Middle English sanguinolent, from Old French sanguinolent, from Latin sanguinolentus (“of blood”).

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