Usually means: Relieves gas, soothes the stomach.
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  1. carminative: Merriam-Webster
  2. carminative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carminative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carminative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carminative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Carminative, carminative: Wordnik
  7. carminative: Wiktionary
  8. carminative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. carminative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. carminative: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. carminative: Dictionary.com
  12. Carminative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Carminative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. carminative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. carminative: Rhymezone
  16. Carminative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. carminative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. carminative: FreeDictionary.org
  19. carminative: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. carminative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. carminative: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Carminative: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. Carminative: Health & Beauty Glossary

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  1. carminative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. carminative: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Carminative: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. carminative: Medical dictionary
  8. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Carminative: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Carminative: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carminative)

adjective:  (medicine) Relieving the discomfort of gas in the digestive tract, either by reducing its production (by the gut microbiota) or by inducing its expulsion (whether as belches [upper GI action] or as flatus [lower GI action]).
noun:  (medicine) A drug or substance that relieves the discomfort of gas in the digestive tract, either by reducing its production (by the gut microbiota) or by inducing its expulsion (whether as belches [upper GI action] or as flatus [lower GI action]).

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