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Answer for the clue "Medicinal name accepted by bureaucrat? ", 9 letters:
officinal

Word definitions for officinal in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"kept in stock by a druggist," c.1720, from French officinal , from Medieval Latin officinalis , literally "of or belonging in an officina," a storeroom (of a monastery) for medicines and necessaries, in classical Latin "workshop, manufactory, laboratory," ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Officinal \Of*fic"i*nal\, a. [F., fr. L. officina a workshop, contr. fr. opificina, fr. opifex a workman; opus work + facere to make or do.] Used in a shop, or belonging to it. [Obs. or R.] --Johnson. (Pharm.) Kept in stock by apothecaries; -- said of such ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Officinal is a term applied in medicine to drugs , plants and herbs , which are sold in a chemist or druggist shop, and to medical preparations of such drugs, et cetera, as are made in accordance with the prescriptions authorized by a pharmacopoeia . Not ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 medicinal. 2 (context obsolete rare English) Used in a shop, or belonging to it. 3 (context obsolete pharmaceutical English) Kept in stock by apothecary; said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; ...