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n. - Medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing adj. - Relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping).

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  • Everything was in the word carminative -- a detailed, exact foreground, an immense, indefinite hinterland of suggestion.
  • Ginger can be classified as a carminative in addition to an antiflammatory and diaphoretic herb.
  • The medical term "carminative," a comforting medicine, really means a charm medicine, and has the same derivation.
  • I had a whole poem ruined, just because the word 'carminative' didn't mean what it ought to have meant.
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