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pharmacognosia

pharmacognosia is the alternative form of pharmacognosy.

Meaning of pharmacognosy

Noun

pharmacognosy (countable and uncountable, plural pharmacognosies)

  1. A branch of pharmacology that studies medical substances that are derived from natural sources, and their recognition.

Questions about pharmacognosia

What is pharmacognosia the alternative form of?
Pharmacognosia is the alternative form of pharmacognosy.

Words near pharmacognosia in the dictionary

  1. pharmacogenotype
  2. pharmacogenotyped
  3. pharmacogenotypes
  4. pharmacogenotyping
  5. pharmacognocist
  6. pharmacognosia
  7. pharmacognosies
  8. pharmacognosis
  9. pharmacognosist
  10. pharmacognosists
  11. pharmacognostic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pharmacognosia (page history and authors); pharmacognosy (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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