vermifuge

Attested since about 1720, vermi- +‎ -fuge, from Latin vermis (“worm”) + fugere (“to cause to flee”).

vermifuge (comparative more vermifuge, superlative most vermifuge)

1. (medicine, dated) Referring to something that acts as a drug to cause expulsion or death of intestinal worms.

• anthelmintic.

• vermifugal

vermifuge (plural vermifuges)

1. (medicine, dated) A drug that causes the expulsion or death of intestinal worms, such as tapeworms.
   • 1875, James Herman De Ricci, Fiji: Our New Province in the South Seas, page 135:

     [...]; that the fruit is very good eating, either raw or boiled, and that the seeds, distinguished by a mustard-like pungency, are an efficacious vermifuge for children.

• anthelmintic

vermifuge (plural vermifuges)

1. (medicine) vermifuge

vermifuge m (plural vermifuges)

1. (medicine) vermifuge

• “vermifuge” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).