Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Punched; pierced with holes.
  • In botany, having holes or slits, as a leaf.

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

  • adjective Punched; pierced with, or having, holes.

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

  • adjective pierced or punched with holes

Etymologies

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Latin pertusus, past participle of pertundere ("to beat or thrust through, to bore through").

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