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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. ipecacs: Merriam-Webster
  2. ipecacs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ipecacs: Vocabulary.com
  4. ipecacs: Wiktionary
  5. ipecacs: Dictionary.com
  6. ipecacs: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ipecacs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ipecacs: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. ipecacs: Medical 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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