Meanings
- not comparableCausing blistering to the skin.
plural vesicants
- Any material that causes blisters upon contact with the skin.
Rubber-clothed figures entered from an inner room like divers in air. Some of the vesicant-proof suits did not fit and the wearers moved uncomfortably and clumsily.
1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 190
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecausing blisters
nouna chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Late Latinvēsīcāns
- Englishvesicant
Borrowed from Late Latin vēsīcāns, present participle of vēsīcō. By surface analysis, vesic- + -ant.
More words from Late Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish rakkuloita aiheuttava, rakkuloita aiheuttava aine
- rakkuloita aiheuttavacausing blisters
- rakkuloita aiheuttava ainematerial that causes blisters
- vesikanttimaterial that causes blisters
Russian везикант
- везикант (vezikant)material that causes blisters
Cite this entry
vesicant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vesicant
“vesicant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vesicant. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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