root doctor

English

Noun

root doctor (plural root doctors)

  1. (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, published 2013, page 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.
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