sanguinary

Accompanied by bloodshed.

Eager for bloodshed; bloodthirsty.

Consisting of blood.

Consisting of blood; formed of blood: as, a sanguinary stream.

Bloody; attended with much bloodshed or carnage: as, a sanguinary encounter.

Bloodthirsty; eager to shed blood; characterized by cruelty.

Synonyms and Sanguinary, Bloody. Sanguinary refers to the shedding of blood, or pleasure in the shedding of blood;’ bloody refers to the presence or, by extension, the shedding of blood: as, a sanguinary battle; the sanguinary spirit of Jenghiz Khan; a bloody knife or battle.

The yarrow or milfoil: probably so called from its fabled use in stanching blood.

The bloodroot, Sanguinaria Canadensis.

Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous.