Definitions

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

  • adjective Producing pus.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having relation to the formation of pus; producing or generating pus.

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

  • adjective (Med.) Producing or generating pus.

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

  • adjective referring to bacterial infections that make pus

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective producing pus

Etymologies

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pyo- + -genic

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