Tru"cu*lent (?), a. [L.truculentus, fr. trux, gen. trucis, wild, fierce: cf. F. truculent.]
1.
Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.
Ray.
2.
Cruel; destructive; ruthless.
More or less truculent plagues.
Harvey.
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