Usually means: Emetic used for inducing vomiting.
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  1. ipecac: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ipecac: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ipecac: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. ipecac: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  12. ipecac: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Ipecac (album), Ipecac (disambiguation), Ipecac: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Ipecac: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ipecac: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  6. Ipecac: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. ipecac: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ipecac)

noun:  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.
noun:  (pharmacology) An emetic and expectorant drug that contains emetine and is prepared from ipecac especially as a syrup for use in treating accidental poisoning.
noun:  The shrub that produces ipecac (Cephaelis ipecacuanha), native to Brazil and cultivated elsewhere.

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