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Vermifuge definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VERM'IFUGE, n. [L. vermis, a worm, and fugo, to expel.]
A medicine or substance that destroys or expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms [syn: vermifuge, anthelmintic, anthelminthic, helminthic]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1718 an agent that destroys or expels parasitic worms ; anthelmintic

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. that expels intestinal worms. --n. a drug that does this.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vermifuge Ver"mi*fuge, n. [Cf. F. vermifuge. See Vermifugal.] (Med.) A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Anthelmintic, helminthagogue.