Word Meanings - VERMIFUGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.
Related words: (words related to VERMIFUGE)
- WORMSEED
Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - SUBSTANCE
See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - ANIMALCULE
An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the - ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall. - ANIMALISH
Like an animal. - ANIMALISM
The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality. - SUBSTANCELESS
Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge. - MEDICINE
A physician. Shak. Medicine bag, a charm; -- so called among the North American Indians, or in works relating to them. -- Medicine man , a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of - ANIMALCULUM
An animalcule. Note: Animalculæ, as if from a Latin singular animalcula, is a barbarism. - ANTHELMINTIC
Good against intestinal worms. -- An anthelmintic remedy. - ANIMALIZE
1. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton. 2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation. 3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The - SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
The substance of the medullary sheath. - BELL ANIMALCULE
An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds. - SUGGESTIVE MEDICINE
Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient. - VEGETO-ANIMAL
Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.