"medicine wheel" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: medicine wheels [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} medicine wheel (plural medicine wheels)
  1. A symbol of indigenous North American culture and religion.
    Sense id: en-medicine_wheel-en-noun-BArgM~yW
  2. A stone monument related to this symbol, constructed by laying stones in a particular pattern on the ground oriented to the four directions.
    Sense id: en-medicine_wheel-en-noun-yPWGEQxB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 64
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: sacred hoop

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for medicine wheel meaning in All languages combined (1.1kB)

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