medicinal properties
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- noun
- /məˈdɪsənl ˈprɑːpərtiz/
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propiedades medicinales
- By tapping the knowledge of the shamans, scientists hope to reduce the research costs of identifying plants with beneficial medicinal properties.
- plants with medicinal properties
Examples
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The plant also has medicinal properties.
Academic text (2014) -
This is a book about the mysterious medicinal properties of various foods.
Fiction book (1992) -
To evaluate it in terms of modern science, this flower has many medicinal properties.
Blog text (4) -
This discovery process has been quite successful at identifying plants with potential medicinal properties.
Academic text (1993) -
In addition to food and wood products, plants with medicinal properties are harvested from the wild.
Academic text (1997) -
That sweet-tasting leaf has many medicinal properties.
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The healing and medicinal properties associated with pu-erh tea are truly amazing.
Blog text (30) -
Respect for the medicinal properties of breast milk reflected faith in its power as a life-giving force.
Academic text (1994) -
Raskin first became interested in Aframomum as part of an international bio-exploration effort to search for plants with medicinal properties.
Academic text (2007) -
Many foods have medicinal properties, including cranberries, ginger, and garlic.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the qualities of a substance that have beneficial effects on health' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'medicinal' (relating to healing) with 'properties' (features/attributes). This is a regular noun–modifier composition common across languages and follows straightforward compositional semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase medicinal properties comes from people long ago testing plants and finding parts that helped the sick. Medicinal means 'used as medicine' and properties are the useful qualities, so the phrase means the qualities that can help treat illness.