PHARMACOPOEIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pharmacopoeia mean? 

• PHARMACOPOEIA (noun)
  The noun PHARMACOPOEIA has 1 sense:

1. a collection or stock of drugs

  Familiarity information: PHARMACOPOEIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHARMACOPOEIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A collection or stock of drugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pharmacopoeia" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Meronyms (parts of "pharmacopoeia"):

drug (a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic)

Holonyms ("pharmacopoeia" is a part of...):

apothecary's shop; chemist's; chemist's shop; drugstore; pharmacy (a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold)

 Context examples 

It has not yet found its way either into the pharmacopoeia or into the literature of toxicology.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Professor's actions were certainly odd and not to be found in any pharmacopoeia that I ever heard of.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)