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# medicinal

«medicinal» in Mova's school dictionary: **used to treat illness or helping the body heal:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Medicinal means used to treat illness or helping the body heal: «medicinal plants». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/medicinal/#m1)

2) (joking) Said about something you enjoy, pretending it is good for you: «a medicinal chocolate». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/medicinal/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in science (medicinal plants like aloe), history (old remedies) and health. Phrases: «medicinal properties», «for medicinal purposes», «medicinal herbs».

### examples

- Aloe vera has medicinal properties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/medicinal/#x1)
- Many medicinal drugs come from plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/medicinal/#x2)
- The garden grows medicinal herbs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/medicinal/#x3)
- Grandma said the hot drink was «purely medicinal». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/medicinal/#x4)
- Willow bark was used for medicinal purposes long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/medicinal/#x5)
- Some medicinal plants are poisonous in large amounts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/medicinal/#x6)
- Of course it was only water, but it was out of a bottle, and she always shook the bottle and counted the drops, which gave it a certain medicinal quality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/medicinal/#x7)

### note

Pronounced «me-DIS-in-al». Related: medicine, medical. Safety: never eat a plant because someone says it is medicinal; ask an adult or doctor.

### In the corpora

- ["For medicinal purposes" is a joke meaning for drinking or getting high, not really for health.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «medicinal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/medicinal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.