as in medicinal
tending to cure disease or restore health
the discovery of officinal plants that continues to this day
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medicinal
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Experts will give informal tours of the various plant beds contained in the garden’s Chinese medicinal garden section, answering guest questions.—
Pedro Moura,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026 -
Through direct and indirect exchanges with these communities, early settlers learned of Indigenous applications of sassafras and adopted them in their own preparations of medicinal teas and tonics from the root bark.—
Kari Traylor,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Officinal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/officinal. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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