Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking blood; anemic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bloodless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Bloodless.
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- adjective Lacking
blood ;anemic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective destitute of blood or apparently so
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This, however, is to be observed: that in winter and the colder season, exsanguine animals, such as the snail, show no pulsation; they seem rather to live after the manner of vegetables, or of those other productions which are therefore designated plant-animals.
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If your constitution be a salt or sugar one, he will melt you away with damp sheets and duckings; if you are as exsanguine as a turnip, his scientific delight in getting blood out of you will be only heightened.
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This, however, is to be observed: that in winter and the colder season, exsanguine animals, such as the snail, show no pulsation; they seem rather to live after the manner of vegetables, or of those other productions which are therefore designated plant - animals.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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This, however, is to be observed: that in winter and the colder season, exsanguine animals, such as the snail, show no pulsation; they seem rather to live after the manner of vegetables, or of those other productions which are therefore designated plant-animals.
IV. Of the Motion of the Heart and Its Auricles, as Seen in the Bodies of Living Animals 1909
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