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.
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