ipecac
英 ['ɪpɪkæk]
美
- n. 吐根；吐根植物
英英释义
- 1. a medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning)
英文词源
- ipecac
- 1710, borrowing via Portuguese of a shortened form of Tupi ipecacuana (a word attested in English from 1682), a medicinal plant of Brazil. The Indian word is said to mean "small plant causing vomit."