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practitioner(dictionary)
practitioner(dictionary)
practitioner(medicine)
general practitioner(dictionary)
Family practitioner(health)
General practitioner(health)
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verbena (iou) and medical practitioner (oh)


verbena (iou)



verbena noun. . M16.
[Latin (usu. in pl.), in sense 2 repr. medieval Latin uses (= Latin verbenaca). Cf. VERVAIN.]
Roman Antiquities. In pl. The leafy boughs of certain aromatic trees and shrubs, used in religious ceremonies. M16.
lemon verbena: see LEMON noun1. sand-verbena: see SAND noun.
Any of numerous chiefly N. and S. American plants constituting the genus Verbena (family Verbenaceae), which have spikes or clusters of tubular flowers; esp. any of those (esp. V. hybrida) grown for their fragrant colourful flowers, much used as bedding annuals. M16.
A perfume obtained from the leaves of lemon verbena. M19.
verbe'naceous adjective of or pertaining to the Verbenaceae or verbena family L19.

medical practitioner (oh)



n [C]
BrE formal a doctor