| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | e·met·ic |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -m t k |
| ADJECTIVE: | Causing vomiting. | | NOUN: | An agent that causes vomiting. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin emeticos, from Greek emetikos, from emetos, vomiting, from emein, to vomit. See wem - in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | e·meti·cal·ly —ADVERB
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