exsanguious
Adjective

exsanguious

  1. Destitute of blood.
    • , Sir Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.
      The third is the paucity 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 ayr was a sufficient maintenance for these exsanguious parts.
  2. (zoology) Without true, or red, blood.
    Insects are exsanguious.



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