officinal

How to use officinal in a sentence

• The seed and oil, and a spirit and a water prepared from them, are officinal in the pharmacopias.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley

• Both plants contain in the bark of their roots the same red dye as the officinal roots of the Alcanna tinctoria.

  Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, Part III (the Text Being Chapters XXVIII-XXXIII of the London Edition, 1843, and the Appendix a Combination of the Appendices of the London and German [Coblentz, 1839] Editions) | Maximilian, Prinz von Wied

• The root is quite the same as that of the officinal Radix senegæ.

  Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, Part III (the Text Being Chapters XXVIII-XXXIII of the London Edition, 1843, and the Appendix a Combination of the Appendices of the London and German [Coblentz, 1839] Editions) | Maximilian, Prinz von Wied

• Named from the country Liguria, where the officinal Lovage of the gardens abounds.

  The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States | Asa Gray

• The pubic louse may be exterminated by the measures recommended for the head louse, or by the use of officinal mercurial ointment.

  Handbook of Medical Entomology | William Albert Riley