Adjective: anthelmintic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more anthelmintic |
| Superlative | most anthelmintic |
Sample Sentences
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Research is progressing well on finding native plants with anthelmintic properties.
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The parasites thrive in an environment of dirt, and the main lines of precaution are those dictated by sanitary science. Malefern, santonine, thymol and other anthelmintic remedies are prescribed. [1911, “Ankylostomiasis”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:]
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However, the lighter boiling constituents of tne oil are much less irritating and at the same time they are apparently more anthelmintic than the heavier fraction. [1918, American Society for Microbiology, Society of American Bacteriologists, Abstracts of Bacteriology, volume 2, page 262:]
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Our experiments indicate that this constituent is anthelmintic and also a gastrointestinal irritant, while the lighter portion of the oil is apparently even more anthelmintic and much less irritating. [1919, Experiment Station Record, volume 39, page 586:]
Adjectives inflected like anthelmintic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
5. Proto-Indo-European *-i
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
7. Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
8. Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
9. English anti-
10. English ant-
11. Ancient Greek ἕλμῐνς (hélmĭns)der.
12. English helminth
13. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
14. Proto-Italic *-ikos
15. Latin -icuslbor.
16. Old French -iquebor.
17. Middle English -ik
18. English -ic
19. English anthelmintic
20. From ant- + helminth + -ic; for some speakers, the prefix's t- and helminth's initial h- have become /θ/ while the final th of helminth has become t by dissimilation.