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herbmaster

herbmaster noun: an expert in herbal medicine.

Noun

herbmaster (plural herbmasters)

  1. An expert in herbal medicine.
    • […] 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...
    • 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

Forms of herbmaster

pluralherbmasters

Origin of herbmaster

From herb + master.

Questions about herbmaster

What does herbmaster mean?
Herbmaster means an expert in herbal medicine.
What part of speech is herbmaster?
Herbmaster is a noun.
What is the plural of herbmaster?
The plural of herbmaster is herbmasters.

Words near herbmaster in the dictionary

  1. herblet
  2. herblets
  3. herblike
  4. herblore
  5. herbman
  6. herbmaster
  7. herbmasters
  8. herbmen
  9. herbmistress
  10. herbmistresses
  11. herbogenomics

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