Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A drug or agent that induces or hastens menstrual flow.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.
Wiktionary
- n. Herb that stimulates blood flow in the pelvic area and uterus, causing menstruation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any agent that promotes menstrual discharge
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek μήν ("month") + ἀγωγός ("leading"). (Wiktionary)
- Greek emmēna, the menses (from neuter pl. of emmēnos, monthly, + -agogue). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Dandelion greens are similarly amazing sources of nutrition - the Dents de Lion is an imported plant brought here by European settlers because it's so valuable both as a food source and as an herb [not recommended for pregnant women, it is an emmenagogue]”
“Many herbs with emmenagogue properties promoting menstruation are contraindicated during pregnancy.”
“It also eliminates worms and is an emmenagogue, so it should be generally avoided during pregnancy.”
“It is certain that in some parts of England preparations of Pennyroyal are in considerable demand, and a great number of women ascribe _emmenagogue_ properties to it, that is, the power of inducing the periodical monthly flux.”
“A medicine may be an emmenagogue without being an ecbolic.”
“The following is recommended as a reliable emmenagogue in many cases of functional amenorrhoea:”
“In North India this drug is used as emmenagogue and anti-arthritic, and in Banda for intermittent fevers and intestinal disorders.”
“He also recommends its use before breakfast as an anthelmintic in lumbricoids, and finally attributes to it virtues as an emmenagogue.”
“-- The bark of the trunk is well known as a febrifuge and emmenagogue in India.”
“They also attribute to it diuretic, emmenagogue and anthelmintic properties.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘emmenagogue’.
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phrontistery - e
from phrontistery.info
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2042 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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bigger than England
Larger than your average Texan.
sesquioxide, thyrotoxicosis, overcapitalised, exceptionality, immanentistic, intercontinental, inoculativity, portraiture, embryological, polyphenolic, singularisation, emmenagogue and 12 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1401 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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M'ogle
As to feature the creature "mog".
cosmogony, transmogrify, glom, golem, mog, mogul, moggy, smog, demogenic, cormogeny, seismograph, primogenitor and 359 more...
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A list
clench, shudder, clamp, twisting, sharply, thrusting, crashing, pulsing, curling, thrumming, rippling, wrench and 94 more...
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Femmesque
Curious words having to do with women: positive or negative; feminine, observational, technical, weird, stupid, crass, etc. I loathe some of these words but I'm using this list as a catch-all... ev...
mittelschmerz, gynotikolobomasso..., ingenue, uxorious, hogminny, quim, suffragette, damsel, madame, parturient, testatrix, mediatrix and 188 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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A Gogue or Two
sialogogue, secretagogue, ptysmagogue, psychagogue, phlegmagogue, pedagogue, mystagogue, melanagogue, logogogue, lithagogue, hypnagogue, hydragogue and 4 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "Good, I had plenty of willow bark still left. I hesitated over the small rank of bottles in the upper right tray of the chest. I had several very strong emmenagogues—blue cohosh, ergot, and pennyroyal—but picked instead the gentler tansy and rue, setting a handful into a bowl and pouring boiling water on them to steep."
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 58 Jan 18, 2010
madmouth Emmenagogue, the Red Agent Jun 19, 2009