ipecac
shortened form of ipecacuanha.
| 1788 M. Cutler in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888) I. 409 Examined several vegetables, the Pawpaw, Ipecac, Red⁓bud, Spanish Oak, Honey-locust. 1855 O. W. Holmes Poems 174 Ye healers of men, for a moment decline Your feats in the rhubarb and ipecac line. 1875 H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 433 Ipecac acts upon the digestive tract. |