carminative
Americannoun
adjective
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of carminative
1645–55; < Late Latin carmināt ( us ), past participle of carmināre to purify ( Latin: to card (wool), verbal derivative of carmen (attested only in Late Latin ) comb for carding wool) + -ive
Example Sentences
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But this season, sponsored by Turns, a carminative, Horace Heidt's Musical Knights went out in front with a burp.
From Time Magazine Archive
In China, Japan, and India it is used as a condiment in the preparation of food, and is chewed to promote digestion, and the native physicians prescribe it as a carminative.
From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders
This nostrum is a compound of some of the ordinary foods with certain well-known aromatic and carminative substances.
From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
Cubeb, kū′beb, n. the dried berry of Piper cubeba, a climbing shrub, native to Sumatra—useful as a stomachic and carminative in indigestion, for piles and for sore throats.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
It is a very useful stimulant, tonic, stomachic and carminative.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
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