convellent

From Latin convellēns, present participle of convellō. See convulse.

• IPA^(key): /kənˈvɛlənt/

convellent (comparative more convellent, superlative most convellent)

1. (anatomy, obsolete) Tending to tear or pull.
   • 1845, Robert Bentley Todd, William Bowman, The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man:

     The ends of the fragment […] will not yield to the convellent force.

• “convellent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

convellent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of convellō