perspirative
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the participle stem of Latin perspīrāre (“to perspire”).
Adjective[edit]
perspirative (not comparable)
- (now rare) Performing the act of perspiration or sweating; perspiratory. [from 18th c.]
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 164:
- The difficulty of injecting vegetable vessels seems to shew that their perspirative pores are much less than those of animals […] .