Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IP-E-CAC-U-AN'HA, n.

A medicine of the shops produced by a considerable number of plants. That which is considered the best, is the root of Cephaëlis Ipecacuanha of South America. Ipecacuanha is a little wrinkled root about the thickness of a moderate quill, much used as an emetic, and against diarrheas and dysenteries. Cyc.