Word Meanings - DOCTORESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A female doctor.
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- FEMALE
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or - DOCTORATE
The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor. - DOCTORAL
Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood. - DOCTORLY
Like a doctor or learned man. "Doctorly prelates." Foxe. - FEMALE FERN
a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn. - DOCTORESS
A female doctor. - DOCTORALLY
In the manner of a doctor. - DOCTORSHIP
Doctorate. Clarendon. - DOCTOR
The friar skate. Doctors' Commons. See under Commons. -- Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine. G. Eliot. -- Doctor fish , any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also - FEMALE RHYMES
double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree - WATER DOCTOR
One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine. A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.