Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, sterile; barren.
  • noun In pathology, same as abortifacient.

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

  • noun archaic, medicine Abortifacient; an agent producing abortion.
  • adjective archaic, medicine Reproductively sterile or miscarrying.

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