🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

pustuloso

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /pus.tuˈlo.so/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Pustulate/ˈpʌs.tʃə.leɪt/
adjectiveverbCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El brote cutáneo presentó un aspecto pustuloso."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Having pustules or blister-like elevations; covered with small bumps or swellings.

    "The botanist identified the leaf surface as pustulate due to the numerous tiny raised spots."
As verb
  1. 1

    To form into a pustule or pustules; to develop blister-like swellings.

    "The infected skin lesion began to pustulate over the course of twenty-four hours."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin pustulatus, past participle of pustulare (to form pustules), stemming from Latin pustula (blister or pimple). It entered medical and botanical English usage in the late 17th century to describe blister-like or pimply elevations on surfaces.

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