phlegmagogue

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek φλεγμαγωγός (phlegmagōgós).

Noun

phlegmagogue (plural phlegmagogues)

(obsolete) Any medicine supposed to expel phlegm.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “phlegmagogue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)