pruriginous

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin from Latin prurigo (“itching, itch”): compare French prurigineux.

Adjective

pruriginous (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Tending to, or caused by, prurigo; affected by, or of the nature of, prurigo.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pruriginous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)