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Chinese patent medicines

Chinese patent medicines is the plural of Chinese patent medicine.

Meaning of Chinese patent medicine

Noun

Chinese patent medicine (countable and uncountable, plural Chinese patent medicines)

  1. (Chinese, traditional) Herbal medicine modernized into a ready-to-use form such as tablets, oral solutions or dry suspensions, as opposed to herbs that require cooking.

Questions about Chinese patent medicines

What is Chinese patent medicines the plural of?
Chinese patent medicines is the plural of Chinese patent medicine.

Words near Chinese patent medicines in the dictionary

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  2. Chinese paper
  3. Chinese papers
  4. Chinese parsley
  5. Chinese patent medicine
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  8. Chinese peach
  9. Chinese peaches
  10. Chinese pear
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chinese patent medicines (page history and authors); Chinese patent medicine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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