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perspirative

perspirative adjective: performing the act of perspiration or sweating; perspiratory.

Adjective

perspirative (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Performing the act of perspiration or sweating; perspiratory.
    • The difficulty of injecting vegetable vessels seems to shew that their perspirative pores are much less than those of animals […].1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 164

Origin of perspirative

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

Questions about perspirative

What does perspirative mean?
Perspirative means performing the act of perspiration or sweating; perspiratory.
What part of speech is perspirative?
Perspirative is an adjective.

Words near perspirative in the dictionary

  1. perspirated
  2. perspirates
  3. perspirating
  4. perspiration
  5. perspirations
  6. perspirative
  7. perspiratory
  8. perspire
  9. perspired
  10. perspirer
  11. perspirers

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