Jalap [noun]
Definition of Jalap:
vegetable
Opposite/Antonyms of Jalap:
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Sentence/Example of Jalap:
Brougham needs a dose of jalap instead of pap, for he cannot even spell the 'greatest happiness principle' properly.
I told him about the situation in Fisher Hill and how finances was low on account of the local mixture of politics and jalap.
I drink his health in a dose of the cheerful beverage known as jalap, and thresh the sheets with my hot hands.
This is probably the case with such as Castor-oil, Scammony, and Jalap, which are simply cathartic in their action.
The resins of Jalap, Scammony, and other such substances, are affirmed to pass out along with them.
Here grow the jalap and the guaiacum, the sweet-scented sassafras and the sanitary copaiba.
I took ten grains of calomel and a scruple of jalap, and drank during the day large draughts of tea, weak and warm.
The seed is the part employed, its cathartic properties being much like those of jalap, though less energetic.
The last is an excellent substitute for the corresponding preparation of jalap.
If the Feringhi, they said, gives a pinch of dust (jalap powder) or only water, the sick became well!