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emetic

adj
/əˈmɛt.ɪk/UK

Etymology

From French émétique, from Vulgar Latin *emeticus, from Ancient Greek ἐμετικός (emetikós), from ἔμετος (émetos, “vomit”); by surface analysis, em(esis) + -etic.

  1. derived from ἐμετικός
  2. borrowed from émétique

Definitions

  1. Causing nausea and vomiting.

  2. An agent that induces vomiting.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for emetic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA