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apothecal

apothecal adjective: relating to drugs or pharmacy.

Adjective

apothecal (not comparable)

  1. Relating to drugs or pharmacy.
    • I put down a little strychnine between two bits of meat, and am told next morning that "a gurt big cat has been found dead in the ditch." […] I laugh equally at bucolic menace and apothecal libel.1872, Mortimer Collins, The Princess Clarice: A Story of 1871, volume 1, page 108

Questions about apothecal

What does apothecal mean?
Apothecal means relating to drugs or pharmacy.
What part of speech is apothecal?
Apothecal is an adjective.

Words near apothecal in the dictionary

  1. apotelesmatical
  2. apotelesms
  3. apotemnophilia
  4. apotemnophilic
  5. apotemnophobia
  6. apothecal
  7. apothecarial
  8. apothecarie
  9. apothecaries
  10. apothecaries'
  11. apothecaries' system

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