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vulnerary

UK/ˈvʌl.nəɹ.əɹ.i//ˈvʌl.nɚ.ɛɹ.i/

vulnerary adjective: useful or used for healing wounds; curative, healing.

Adjective

vulnerary (comparative more vulnerary, superlative most vulnerary)

  1. Useful or used for healing wounds; curative, healing.
    • Rebecca examined the wound, and having applied to it such vulnerary remedies as her art prescribed, informed her father that […] there was nothing to fear for his guest’s life.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XXVIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst...
    • Take, for example, the famous vulnerary ointment attributed to Paracelsus.1902, William James, “Lecture XX: Conclusions”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, footnote 1, page...
  2. (archaic, rare) Causing wounds; wounding.

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...

vulnerary meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

vulnerary in Tamil

புண்ணாற்றும் மை

vulnerary in Urdu

مرہم, شافئ زخم

vulnerary in Kannada

ಗಾಯಮದ್ದು

Forms of vulnerary

Adjective
comparativemore vulnerary
superlativemost vulnerary
Noun
pluralvulneraries

Origin of vulnerary

From Latin vulnerārius, from vulnus (“wound”).

Questions about vulnerary

What does vulnerary mean?
Vulnerary means useful or used for healing wounds; curative, healing.
What is vulnerary in Tamil?
Vulnerary in Tamil is புண்ணாற்றும் மை. See Vulnerary meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vulnerary?
Vulnerary can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce vulnerary?
Vulnerary is pronounced /ˈvʌl.nəɹ.əɹ.i/ (UK).

Words near vulnerary in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vulnerary (page history and authors); vulnerary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vulnerary (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vulnerary (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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