expectorants
Meaning of expectorants
plural noun
a medicine which promotes the secretion of sputum by the air passages, used to treat coughs.
mid 18th century: from Latin expectorant- ‘expelling from the chest’, from the verb expectorare (see expectorate).
Information about expectorants
- It is a name.
- The singular form of expectorants is: expectorant.
- Languages in which expectorants is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of expectorants
ex-pec-to-rants
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- expectorants is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
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