formicant
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin formica (“ant”); so called because supposed to resemble the motion of an ant.
Adjective
formicant (comparative more formicant, superlative most formicant)
- Crawling like an ant.
- 1871, Tilbury Fox, Skin Diseases: Their Description, Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
- The neurotic aspect of the disease prurigo is well shown in the burning, tingling, formicant character of the disordered sensation.
- 1871, Tilbury Fox, Skin Diseases: Their Description, Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
- (medicine, obsolete) Of the pulse: weak and rapid.
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) formīcant