Definition for PER-TUSE', or PER-TUS'ED

PER-TUSE', or PER-TUS'ED, a. [L. pertusus, pertundo; per and tundo, to beat.]

  1. Punched; pierced with holes.
  2. In botany, full of hollow dots on the surface, as a leaf.

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