officinal meaning
ENWOfficinal
- Officinal is a term applied in medicine to drugs, plants and herbs, which are sold in a chemist or druggist shop, and to medical preparations of such drugs, et cetera, as are made in accordance with the prescriptions authorized by a pharmacopoeia.
- In botanical nomenclature, the specific epithet officinalis derives from a plant's historical use in pharmacology.
- AdjectiveCOMmore officinalSUPmost officinalPREoff-SUF-inal
Definition of officinal in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "officinal" is an adjective.