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noun a medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning)
originContraction of ipecacuanha, from Portuguese ipecacuanha, from Old Tupi ypekakûãîa, from ypeka (“duck”) + akûãîa (“penis”).
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