herbmaster

plural herbmasters

1. An expert in herbal medicine.

   “And because of these facets of the craft, partial adepts can also sometimes be herbmistresses or herbmasters.”

   2006, Robert Newcomb, Savage Messiah, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 19

   2 more examples

   […] the herbmaster of the Houses of Healing in The Return of the King is descended from the “jabberwocks of historical and antiquarian research” in the British Academy lecture.

   1979, T[homas] A[lan] Shippey, “Creation from Philology in The Lord of the Rings”, in Mary Salu, Robert T. Farrell, editors, J. R. R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam, Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 316

   Biting the words back and swallowing them was harder than swallowing the vile concoctions of lunatic herbmasters, but she managed.

   1998, Michelle West, The Uncrowned King (The Sun Sword; book two), DAW Books, →ISBN, page 414