See Also: teniafuge(medicine)

sipeera (iou) and teniafuge (medicine)


sipeera (iou)



sipeera noun. M18.
[Guyanese name.]
The greenheart tree, Ocotea rodiaei of northern S. America (also sipeera tree); the bark of this tree.

teniafuge (medicine)


teniafuge


An agent that causes the expulsion of tapeworms.

Synonym: tenifuge.

Origin: L. Taenia, tapeworm, + fugo, to put to flight