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vulneraries

vulneraries is the plural of vulnerary.

Meaning of vulnerary

Noun

vulnerary (plural vulneraries)

  1. A healing drug or other agent used in healing and treating wounds.
    • On the ſurface of the water there floats a liquid bitumen, although it be every day ſcummed off, as it doth on the lake Aſphaltites in Judæa: The Inhabitants uſe it as pitch: it is alſo found to be an excellent vulnerary, and good in curing old cacoethic and ſcrophulous ulcers.1757, John Rutty, A Methodical Synopsis of Mineral Waters, Comprehending the Most Celebrated Medicinal Waters, both Cold and Hot, of Great-Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, and Italy, and several...

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Questions about vulneraries

What is vulneraries the plural of?
Vulneraries is the plural of vulnerary.

Words near vulneraries in the dictionary

  1. vulnerability indices
  2. vulnerable
  3. vulnerableness
  4. vulnerably
  5. vulnerant
  6. vulneraries
  7. vulnerary
  8. vulnerate
  9. vulnerated
  10. vulnerates
  11. vulnerating

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