medicinal.

1. Used or intended to treat illness or relieve symptoms.

2. Having a smell or taste that suggests medicine or chemical remedies.

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Words that belong together

• medicinal plants
• medicinal properties
• medicinal use

On the page

The survey records medicinal plants used by local communities.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Purpose-related sense normally non-gradable; sensory resemblance may take more medicinal or most medicinal. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common.