Jalap is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for JALAP in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a Mexican plant, also JALOP
• a purgative drug obtained chiefly from the tuberous roots of a Mexican climbing plant.
• Mexican convolvulaceous plant
• The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga (or Exogonium purga), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative medicines. Other species of Ipomoea yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the I. Orizabensis, and I. tuberosa.

Words related to JALAP

jalapic18 jalaps15 jalop14

Words that contain JALAP

jalaps15 jalapic18 jalapin16 jalapeno17 jalapins17 jalapenos18

How to use JALAP in a sentence

• The vicinity of Jalapa, although poorly cultivated, produces maize, wheat, grapes, and jalap, from which plant the well-known medicine is prepared, and the town takes its name.
• On first coming he had found more people being killed by calomel and jalap than by the plague.
• These are combined, however, with a purgative of greater activity, most probably jalap.

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