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Definition of: expellant
(ik·spel′ənt) adjective
Of a nature or having the power to expel: expelling: expellant treatment in medicine.
—noun That which expels, as a purgative. Also ex·pel′lent. [<OF <L expellens, -entis, ppr. of expellere. See EXPEL.]
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