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vesicant

vesicant adjective: causing blistering to the skin.

Adjective

vesicant (not comparable)

  1. Causing blistering to the skin.

Noun

vesicant (plural vesicants)

  1. Any material that causes blisters upon contact with the skin.
    • Rubber-clothed figures entered from an inner room like divers in air. Some of the vesicant-proof suits did not fit and the wearers moved uncomfortably and clumsily.1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 190

vesicant meaning in Tamil and Urdu

vesicant in Tamil

எரிச்சல் கூட்டும் மருந்து, கொப்புள ஊக்கி, கொப்புளமூட்டி

vesicant in Urdu

چھالے ڈالنے والا

Forms of vesicant

pluralvesicants

Origin of vesicant

Borrowed from Late Latin vēsīcāns, present participle of vēsīcō. By surface analysis, vesic- + -ant.

Questions about vesicant

What does vesicant mean?
Vesicant means causing blistering to the skin.
What is vesicant in Tamil?
Vesicant in Tamil is எரிச்சல் கூட்டும் மருந்து, கொப்புள ஊக்கி, கொப்புளமூட்டி. See Vesicant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vesicant?
Vesicant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near vesicant in the dictionary

  1. vesica
  2. vesica biliaris
  3. vesica fellea
  4. vesicae
  5. vesical
  6. vesicant
  7. vesicants
  8. vesicas
  9. vesicate
  10. vesicated
  11. vesicates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vesicant (page history and authors); vesicant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vesicant (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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