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noun (vulneraries)
- A vulnerary substance.
adjective
- (obsolete) Useful or used for healing wounds; healing, curative.
- 1819: Rebecca examined the wound, and having applied to it such remedies as her art prescribed, informed her father that ... there was nothing to fear for his guest"s life " Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- (archaic) (rare) Causing wounds, wounding.
Etymology: From Latin vulnerarius, from vulnus "wound".
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