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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Inducing nausea or vomiting.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A substance which produces nausea.
  • Producing nausea; nauseating: as, nauseant doses.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) A substance which produces nausea; an emetic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun medicine A substance which produces nausea.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting

Etymologies

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Latin nauseans.

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