Vulnerary definition

vŭlnə-rĕrē
vulneraries
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Used in the healing or treating of wounds.
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A remedy used in healing or treating wounds.
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Used for healing wounds.
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Any vulnerary drug, plant, etc.
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Used in the healing or treating of wounds.
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A remedy used in healing or treating wounds.
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Useful or used for healing wounds; healing, curative.
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(archaic, rare) Causing wounds, wounding.
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A healing drug or other agent used in healing and treating wounds.
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Noun

Singular:
vulnerary
Plural:
vulneraries

Origin of vulnerary

  • Latin vulnerārius from vulnus vulner- wound vulnerable

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin vulnerārius, from vulnus (“wound").

    From Wiktionary

Vulnerary Sentence Examples

  • The plant contains allantoin (Todd 1967, Forrest 1982), to which the vulnerary properties of the plant have been ascribed.

  • When cut open, it displays an infinity of tiny leaf-buds and stems, and at intervals there exudes from it an aromatic resin, which from its astringent properties is used by the shepherds as a vulnerary, but has not been converted to any commercial purpose.

  • In China it was an old internal remedy for leprosy and struma, and is accredited with stimulant, tonic, sedative, astringent and vulnerary properties.

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