lardaceous

[ lahr-dey-shuhs ]

adjective

1. lardlike; fatty.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lardaceous¹

First recorded in 1815–25; lard + -aceous

Example Sentences

At the drama’s center is the lardaceous, lecherous, loathsome Roger Ailes, who once ruled the conservative world from behind a bodyguard of enablers, before Gretchen Carlson, Megyn Kelly and other courageous women exposed his predation.

From Washington Post

From the homogeneous and translucent appearance of the surface and the increased density of the tissues the resemblance to bacon or wax is suggested, and the terms lardaceous, bacony, or waxy degeneration have been applied.

From Project Gutenberg

The sloughs and sores have either a black sanguineous appearance or they are lardaceous and intermixed with streaks of dark red.

From Project Gutenberg

For accounts of the various local dropsies see Hydrocephalus; Ascites; Liver, &c.; general dropsy, or dropsy which depends on causes acting on the system at large, is due chiefly to diseases of the heart, kidneys or lungs, occasionally on lardaceous disease, more rarely still on diabetes or one of the anaemias.

From Project Gutenberg

As the result both of syphilis and of tubercle, the tissues of the liver and bowel may present a peculiar alteration; they become amyloid, or lardaceous, a condition in which they appear “waxy,” are coloured dark mahogany brown with dilute iodine solutions, and show degenerative changes in the connective tissue.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• greasy
• oily