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medcinal

medcinal is the archaic form of medicinal.

Meaning of medicinal

Adjective

medicinal (not comparable)

  1. Having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical.
  2. Tending or used to cure disease or relieve pain.
    • Though not poisonous, this mildly psychoactive mushroom has valuable medicinal properties. Extracted agents could be used to enhance medi-gels pain-reducing capabilities.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Amanita jatanum, Elaaden
  3. Tasting like medicine; particularly of unpleasant or artificially sweet or bitter flavours.

See all 4 meanings of medicinal

Forms of medcinal

comparativemore medcinal
superlativemost medcinal

Questions about medcinal

What is medcinal the archaic form of?
Medcinal is the archaic form of medicinal.

Words near medcinal in the dictionary

  1. Medburn
  2. MEDC
  3. Medcalf
  4. Medcalfs
  5. Medchal-Malkajgiri
  6. medcinal
  7. medcouple
  8. medcouples
  9. Medcroft
  10. MEDCs
  11. Meddaugh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: medcinal (page history and authors); medicinal (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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