Noun: bechic
| Singular | bechic |
| Plural | bechics |
Sample Sentences
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Medicines which alleviate cough are called bechics [1719, John Quincy, Pharmacopoeia officinalis et extemporanea : or a compleat English dispensatory in four parts:]
Nouns inflected like bechic
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French béchique or its source Latin bēchicus (“of or for a cough”), from Ancient Greek βηχικός (bēkhikós, “of or for a cough”), from βηχ- (bēkh-), oblique stem of βήξ (bḗx, “cough”). See: French Nouns '
béchique', Latin Nouns '
bēchicus'.