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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

exsanguis

;

out +

sanguis

sanguinis

, blood. Cf.

Destitute of blood.

Sir T. Browne.

(Zoöl.)

Destitute of true, or red, blood, as insects.

Adj.

[L. exsanguis; ex and sanguis, blood.]

Destitute of blood, or rather of red blood, as an animal.

exsanguious ‎(comparative more exsanguious, superlative most exsanguious)

Destitute of blood.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)
(zoology) Without true, or red, blood.
Insects are exsanguious.