英语词汇ipecac的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	ipecac
词源	ipecac. Ipecac is a medicine made to induce vomiting that is prepared from the roots of the ipecac shrub of tropical Ameri- ca. It is one of the few English words that come from the Tupi Indian language, deriving from the Tupi ipeh, low, kae, leaves, and quene, vomit.
随便看	i swan i swear i’ll kwill you it italian italian words in english italic type itch itching ears itchy trigger finger it didn’t jell it doesn’t go on all fours i throw a shoe at you it is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle it might have been it must have been one of the nuts it rains on the just and unjust alike i trust it-s nothing trivial its it-s a great life if you don’t weaken it-s all in a day-s work it-s all over but the shouting it-s all worth it including the final crash it-s always the best swimmers that drown it-s a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but i think you’ll be amused by its presumptions it-s a new ball game

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