n.
The branch of pharmacology that deals with drugs in their crude or natural state and with medicinal herbs or other plants.
[PHARMACO- + Greek gnōsis, knowledge; see gnosis.]
pharmacognosist phar'ma·cog'no·sist n.pharmacognostic phar'ma·cog·nos'tic (-kŏg-nŏs'tĭk) adj.
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