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Adjective: vesicant  ve-si-kunt
  1. Causing blisters
    "Poison ivy has vesicant properties";
    - vesicatory
Noun: vesicant  ve-si-kunt
  1. A chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas)
    "Vesicants like mustard gas were used as chemical weapons in World War I";
    - vesicatory

Derived forms: vesicants

See also: noxious

Type of: chemical agent

Encyclopedia: Vesicant