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hydropick

hydropick is the obsolete form of hydropic.

Meaning of hydropic

Adjective

hydropic (comparative more hydropic, superlative most hydropic)

  1. Dropsical; pertaining to or suffering from dropsy (edema).
    • hydropic diathesis
  2. (obsolete) Insatiably thirsty (like someone with dropsy).
    • The worlds whole sap is sunke: / The generall balme th'hydroptique earth hath drunk […].a. 1631, John Donne, “A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day”, in Poems, published 1633
  3. Swollen with water; characterized by swelling and accumulation of fluid.
    • Ultrastructure of hydropic swelling of a liver cell.2013, Howard Reisner, Essentials of Rubin's Pathology, →ISBN, page 8
  4. Having a yolk deficiency.

Forms of hydropick

comparativemore hydropick
superlativemost hydropick

Questions about hydropick

What is hydropick the obsolete form of?
Hydropick is the obsolete form of hydropic.

Words near hydropick in the dictionary

  1. hydrophytons
  2. hydrophytous
  3. hydropic
  4. hydropical
  5. hydropically
  6. hydropick
  7. hydropillar
  8. hydropillars
  9. hydropiper
  10. hydropipers
  11. hydroplane

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hydropick (page history and authors); hydropic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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