root doctor
English
Noun
root doctor (plural root doctors)
- (chiefly Southern US) A person who uses roots and other herbal remedies for healing. [from 19th c.]
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad 2013, p. 82:
- 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 2013, p. 82:
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