adj. Causing vomiting. n. An agent that causes vomiting. [Late Latin emeticos, from Greek emetikos, from emetos, vomiting, from emein, to vomit; see wemə- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] e·meti·cal·ly adv. |
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