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pharmacopoeia

/fɑːməkəˈpiːə/US/ˌfɑɹ.mə.kəˈpi.ə/

pharmacopoeia noun: a text describing medicines and pharmacological substances, especially their use, preparation, and regulation.

Noun

pharmacopoeia (plural pharmacopoeias or pharmacopoeiae)

  1. A text describing medicines and pharmacological substances, especially their use, preparation, and regulation.
    • [K]nowledge of philtres, aphrodisiacs, and other sexual stimulants spread from the Arabs and the Moors, from Egypt and India into the European herbals, pharmacopeias, and apothecaries' lore, and, on a more indeterminate level, among alchemists, wizards, and occultists.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 155
  2. A collection of drugs.

pharmacopoeia meaning in Kannada, Arabic, Malay and Indonesian

pharmacopoeia in Kannada

ವೈದ್ಯಸಂಹಿತೆ, ಪ್ರಮಾಣಿತ ಔಷಧ ಪಟ್ಟಿಕೆ, ಭೇಷಜಸಂಹಿತೆ

pharmacopoeia in Arabic

official book of medicines
دُسْتُور أَدْوِيَة dustūr ʔadwiya

pharmacopoeia in Malay

official book of medicines
farmakopeia

pharmacopoeia in Indonesian

official book of medicines
farmakope

Forms of pharmacopoeia

pluralpharmacopoeias
pluralpharmacopoeiae
alternative formpharmacopœia
alternative formpharmacopeia

Origin of pharmacopoeia

From French pharmacopée and post-classical Latin pharmacopoeia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek φαρμακοποιία (pharmakopoiía, “preparation of drugs”).

Words formed from pharmacopoeia

Words that rhyme with pharmacopoeia

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Questions about pharmacopoeia

What does pharmacopoeia mean?
Pharmacopoeia means a text describing medicines and pharmacological substances, especially their use, preparation, and regulation.
What is pharmacopoeia in Kannada?
Pharmacopoeia in Kannada is ವೈದ್ಯಸಂಹಿತೆ, ಪ್ರಮಾಣಿತ ಔಷಧ ಪಟ್ಟಿಕೆ, ಭೇಷಜಸಂಹಿತೆ. See Pharmacopoeia meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is pharmacopoeia?
Pharmacopoeia is a noun.
How do you pronounce pharmacopoeia?
Pharmacopoeia is pronounced /fɑːməkəˈpiːə/ (UK).
What is the plural of pharmacopoeia?
The plural of pharmacopoeia is pharmacopoeias.

Words near pharmacopoeia in the dictionary

  1. pharmacophorous
  2. pharmacophylogenomic
  3. pharmacophylogenomics
  4. pharmacophysiological
  5. pharmacophysiology
  6. pharmacopoeia
  7. pharmacopoeiae
  8. pharmacopoeial
  9. pharmacopoeian
  10. pharmacopoeias
  11. pharmacopoeic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pharmacopoeia (page history and authors); pharmacopoeia (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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