ipecac
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- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
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- 6
Definition of ipecac
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)The dried rhizome and roots of either of two tropical American plants (Cephaelis acuminata and Cephaelis ipecacuanha) of the madder family used especially as a source of emetine.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)The dried rhizome and roots of either of two tropical American plants (Cephaelis acuminata and Cephaelis ipecacuanha) of the madder family used especially as a source of emetine.
- (countable, uncountable)An emetic and expectorant drug that contains emetine and is prepared from ipecac especially as a syrup for use in treating accidental poisoning.
- (countable, uncountable)The shrub that produces ipecac (Cephaelis ipecacuanha), native to Brazil and cultivated elsewhere.
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Etymology
Contraction of ipecacuanha, from Portuguese ipecacuanha, from Old Tupi ypekakûãîa, from ypeka (“duck”) + akûãîa (“penis”).
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