aperient

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having a gentle laxative effect.
2. adjective Serving to open or reveal.
3. noun A laxative, either in the form of a medicine or a food such as asparagus or hops, which has the effect of moving the bowels, or aiding digestion and preventing constipation.

Similar words

laxative cathartic purgative physic eccoprotic minorative evacuant anetic analeptic assuasive

Often followed by

medicine and medicines is in waters action draught should

Word family

aperients