vermifugal

From Latin vermis (“a worm”) + fugare (“to drive away”), from fugere (“to flee”). See worm, and fugitive.

• Rhymes: -uːɡəl

vermifugal (comparative more vermifugal, superlative most vermifugal)

1. (medicine) Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel worms or vermin; anthelmintic.

• vermicidal

• “vermifugal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.