Usually means: Ancient Greek physician, herbal medicine expert.
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  1. Dioscorides: Wordnik
  2. Dioscorides (Stoic), Dioscorides: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Dioscorides: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. Dioscorides, Dioscorides: Drug Medical Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Dioscorides)

noun:  Dioscorides (fl. 225 BC), sometimes known as Dioscurides, was a Stoic philosopher, the father of Zeno of Tarsus and a pupil of Chrysippus.
noun:  (Greek: Διοσκουρίδης, Dioskourídēs; 3rd century BC) a Greek epigrammatist of the Hellenistic period.
noun:  Pedanius Dioscorides was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, and botanist.

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