deferent 1
/def"euhr euhnt/ , adj.
marked by or showing deference: She was always deferent to her elders.
[ 1815-25; DEFER 2 + -ENT ]
deferent 2
/def"euhr euhnt/ , adj. Anat.
1. conveying away; efferent.
2. of or pertaining to the vas deferens.
n.
3. Astron. (in the Ptolemaic system) the circle around the earth in which a celestial body or the center of the epicycle of its orbit was thought to move.
[ 1375-1425; late ME deferent- (s. of deferens ), prp. of deferre. See DEFER 2 , -ENT ]