Usually means: Used in medicine; officially recognized.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. officinal: Merriam-Webster
  2. officinal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. officinal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. officinal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. officinal: Wordnik
  6. officinal: Wiktionary
  7. officinal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. officinal: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. officinal: Dictionary.com
  10. officinal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Officinal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Officinal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. officinal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Officinal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. officinal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. officinal: FreeDictionary.org
  17. officinal: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. officinal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. officinal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. officinal: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (officinal)

adjective:  (dated) Medicinal.
adjective:  (obsolete, rare) Used in a shop, or belonging to it.
adjective:  (obsolete, pharmaceutical) Kept in stock by apothecaries; said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.

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