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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024a•per•i•ent (ə pēr′ē ənt),USA pronunciation [Med.]adj. - Medicinehaving a mild purgative or laxative effect.
n. - Drugsa medicine or food that acts as a mild laxative. Also called aperitive.
- Latin aperient- (stem of aperiēns opening, present participle of aperīre to open), equivalent. to aperi- (apparently ap-, variant of ab- ab- + -eri-) + -ent- -ent; the base -eri-, perh. with an earlier shape *wery- or *twery-, occurs only in this verb and operīre to close (see cover, operculum)
- 1620–30
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: aperient /əˈpɪərɪənt/ adj - laxative
n - a mild laxative
Etymology: 17th Century: from Latin aperīre to open |