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root doctors

root doctors is the plural of root doctor.

Meaning of root doctor

Noun

root doctor (plural root doctors)

  1. (Southern US) A person who uses roots and other herbal remedies for healing.
    • 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

Questions about root doctors

What is root doctors the plural of?
Root doctors is the plural of root doctor.

Words near root doctors in the dictionary

  1. root cellaring
  2. root cellars
  3. root disease
  4. root diseases
  5. root doctor
  6. root doctors
  7. Root effect
  8. Root effects
  9. root extraction
  10. root extractions
  11. root field

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