herbalist
Americannoun
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herbalists
plural
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a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
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an author of an herbal.
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(formerly) a botanist.
noun
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a person who grows, collects, sells, or specializes in the use of herbs, esp medicinal herbs
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(formerly) a descriptive botanist
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Origin of herbalist
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During one of the weekend’s lectures, Australian medical herbalist Lee Carroll explains how mushrooms have been used to boost immunity and extend health span for millennia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
Two years ago, a university lecturer went missing in Freetown and his body was later found buried in what police say was the shrine of a herbalist in Waterloo.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
Savina Bertollini, an herbalist in Marche, Italy, said she has worked with health care providers to treat people who were infected with a parasite while traveling.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
Christopher Hobbs, herbalist, mycologist, and author of Medicinal Mushrooms: The Essential Guide, attributes the recent explosion in interest to an “exponentially” growing scientific literature about the healing qualities of mushrooms.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 31, 2024
And maybe the herbalist on the corner wouldn’t mind if I nailed a small billboard to the side of his building.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Yet women continued to excel as herbalists, writing their own pharmacopeias.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Probably the most famous were the Physicians of Myddfai, a succession of herbalists who lived and worked in and around the Carmarthenshire village of Myddfai from the 13th Century.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2024
As ancient healers did, modern herbalists still turn to plants to cleanse, heal, and soothe the skin.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 7, 2024
A 2000-year-old practice by Chinese herbalists -- examining the human tongue for signs of disease -- is now being embraced by computer scientists using machine learning and artificial intelligence.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2023
I peered into the windows of the district’s herbalists, general stores, and curio shops.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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