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vermifuges

vermifuges is the plural of vermifuge.

Meaning of vermifuge

Noun

vermifuge (plural vermifuges)

  1. (dated) A drug that causes the expulsion or death of intestinal worms, such as tapeworms.
    • We have been informed that the usual practice of Merchants, Farmers and Planters, in ordering their supplies of Dr. McLane's Celebrated VERMIFUGE, has been to simply write and order Vermifuge. The consequence is that instead of the genuine Dr. McLanes's Vermifuge, they very frequently get one or...1867, Advertisement, The Prairie Farmer, Volume 20, New Series, page 264
    Synonyms:
    anthelmintic

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Questions about vermifuges

What is vermifuges the plural of?
Vermifuges is the plural of vermifuge.

Words near vermifuges in the dictionary

  1. vermiformis
  2. vermiformity
  3. vermiformous
  4. vermifugal
  5. vermifuge
  6. vermifuges
  7. vermifugous
  8. vermigerous
  9. vermigrade
  10. vermil
  11. vermile

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