ipecacuanha

noun

• 1the dried rhizome of a South American shrub, or a drug prepared from this, used as an emetic and expectorant.

• 2the shrub that produces ipecacuanha, native to Brazil and cultivated elsewhere.

  • Cephaelis ipecacuanha, family Rubiaceae
• used in names of other plants with similar uses to ipecacuanha, e.g. American ipecacuanha.