Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or consisting of pustules.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the nature of a pustule; proceeding from pustules, or characterized by their presence: as, a pustular disease.
  • In botany and zoology, having low elevations like blisters. Also pustulate, pustulose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to pustules
  • adjective Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustulate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing pustules

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Examples

  • God damn that Chabon, dragging it out of the grave where she and the other serious writers had buried it to save serious literature from its polluting touch, the horror of its blank, pustular face, the lifeless, meaningless glare of its decaying eyes!

    Writing Maxine 2009

  • In the end they found there were eight women: four with mastitis, one with an infected C-section incision, one with cellulitis, and two with pustular rashes.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • In the end they found there were eight women: four with mastitis, one with an infected C-section incision, one with cellulitis, and two with pustular rashes.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • In the end they found there were eight women: four with mastitis, one with an infected C-section incision, one with cellulitis, and two with pustular rashes.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • It had come out sounding like all the demons from hell, screaming in pain at the same time because someone had stoked the coals burning beneath their squirming pustular bodies.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

  • MG: There are certainly lots of viruses people can pick up from handling fresh meat, such as those that cause unpleasant conditions like contagious pustular dermatitis and a well-defined medical condition known as "butcher's warts."

    Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010

  • MG: There are certainly lots of viruses people can pick up from handling fresh meat, such as those that cause unpleasant conditions like contagious pustular dermatitis and a well-defined medical condition known as "butcher's warts."

    Kathy Freston: Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010

  • MG: There are certainly lots of viruses people can pick up from handling fresh meat, such as those that cause unpleasant conditions like contagious pustular dermatitis and a well-defined medical condition known as "butcher's warts."

    Kathy Freston: Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic Kathy Freston 2010

  • MG: There are certainly lots of viruses people can pick up from handling fresh meat, such as those that cause unpleasant conditions like contagious pustular dermatitis and a well-defined medical condition known as "butcher's warts."

    Kathy Freston: Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010

  • Let those pustular notions get in there and nestle and find a warm larval home.

    Life Online EAGEAGEAG 2010

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