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Ipecac

2 stages from Tupi-Guarani to English.

Today it means a South American plant root historically used in medicine to induce vomiting
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ipekaaguene
Tupi-Guarani · 1600s
"a medicinal root"
a small plant whose root was used medicinally to induce vomiting
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ipecac
English · 1682
"a medicinal root used to induce vomiting"
shortened and adopted directly for the medicinal root
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