vellicative

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English

Etymology

vellicate +‎ -ive

Adjective

vellicative (not comparable)

  1. Having the power of vellicating, plucking, or twitching; causing vellication.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 vellicative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)