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Definition of Medicinal
1. Adjective. Having the properties of medicine. "Medicinal properties"
Definition of Medicinal
1. a. Having curative or palliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs.
Definition of Medicinal
1. Adjective. having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical. ¹
2. Adjective. Tending or used to cure disease or relieve pain. ¹
3. Adjective. Tasting like medicine; particularly of sweetish artificial flavours similar to cherry, almond or licorice. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Medicinal
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Medicinal
1. 1. Having healing qualities. 2. Pertaining to a medicine or to healing. Origin: L. Medicinalis This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medicinal
Literary usage of Medicinal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"It is not easy to say what demands are to be made upon wines which are declared
on the labels to be "medicinal wines," since wine may be prescribed for very ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1886)
"A basic soap of fixed composition, with which might be incorporated various
medicinal substances, was prepared, consisting of sixteen parts best ox fat, ..."
3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1899)
"In future meetings of the Academy I shall endeavor to collect information adding
to the list of local medicinal plants, and shall endeavor to give such ..."
4. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"Of the localities which specially produce medicinal herbs. XV. The places outside
Hellas which specially produce medicinal herbs seem to be the parts of ..."
5. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"Mineral and medicinal springs. All ground-water dissolves more or less mineral
matter from the rocks, and all springs therefore contain more or less mineral ..."
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