root doctor

noun

A person who uses roots and other herbal remedies for healing.

First used 19th c.
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Meanings

nounroot doctor (plural root doctors)

plural root doctors

  1. Southern USA person who uses roots and other herbal remedies for healing.First known use 19th c.

    She was sorry about the root-doctor because she feared that Joe was depending on the scoundrel to make him well when what he needed was a doctor, and a good one.

    1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 82
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