Ancient Germanic tribes used medicinal herbs in their attempts to cure diseases.
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Medicinal
//məˈdɪ.sɪ.nəl//
Synonyms for "medicinal" (37 found)
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Strong matches (11)
Related words (18)
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5 entriesderived
10 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
9 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
54 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- عِلَاجِيّ adj (tending to cure disease)
Armenian
2 entries- բուժական adj (tending to cure disease)
- բուժիչ adj (tending to cure disease)
Bulgarian
1 entries- целебен adj (tending to cure disease)
Catalan
1 entries- medicinal adj (tending to cure disease)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 藥 /药 adj (tending to cure disease)
- 藥材 /药材 adj (tending to cure disease)
- 藥物 /药物 adj (tending to cure disease)
Dutch
3 entries- geneeskrachtig adj (tending to cure disease)
- genezend adj (tending to cure disease)
- medicinaal adj (of or pertaining to medicine)
Finnish
4 entries- lääke adj (of or pertaining to medicine)
- lääkemäinen adj (of or pertaining to medicine)
- lääkkeen makuinen adj (tasting like medicine)
- parantava adj (tending to cure disease)
French
2 entries- médicamenteux adj (tending to cure disease)
- médicinal adj (tending to cure disease)
Galician
3 entries- medicinal adj (of or pertaining to medicine)
- medicinal adj (tending to cure disease)
- planta medicinal noun (plant used medicinally)
German
4 entries- Arznei adj (tending to cure disease)
- Heil adj (tending to cure disease)
- medikamentös adj (tending to cure disease)
- medizinal adj (tending to cure disease)
Hungarian
3 entries- gyógy adj (tending to cure disease)
- gyógyhatású adj (tending to cure disease)
- gyógyító adj (tending to cure disease)
Italian
2 entries- medicamentoso adj (tending to cure disease)
- medicinale adj (tending to cure disease)
Kazakh
1 entries- дәрілік adj (of or pertaining to medicine)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഔഷധ adj (tending to cure disease)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- medisinsk adj (tending to cure disease)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- medisinsk adj (tending to cure disease)
Polish
4 entries- leczniczy adj (tending to cure disease)
- lekowy adj (of or pertaining to medicine)
- o smaku lekarstwa adj (tasting like medicine)
- zioło noun (plant used medicinally)
Portuguese
1 entries- planta medicinal noun (plant used medicinally)
Romanian
2 entries- medicinal adj (tending to cure disease)
- vindecător adj (tending to cure disease)
Russian
4 entries- лека́рственный adj (tending to cure disease)
- лече́бный adj (tending to cure disease)
- медици́нский adj (tending to cure disease)
- медицинский adj (of or pertaining to medicine)
Spanish
3 entries- medicamentoso adj (tending to cure disease)
- medicinal adj (tending to cure disease)
- planta medicinal noun (plant used medicinally)
Turkish
4 entries- ilaç özelliği olan adj (tending to cure disease)
- iyileştirici adj (tending to cure disease)
- müsekkin adj (tending to cure disease)
- tedavi edici adj (tending to cure disease)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
In the botanical garden, there are many aromatic and medicinal herbs.
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She believes that jade has medicinal properties.
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Is sage medicinal?
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