"medicine woman" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: medicine women [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|medicine women}} medicine woman (plural medicine women)
  1. A female Native American (or, any other indigenous) shamanistic healer. Related terms: folk medicine, herbal medicine, indigenous medicine, medicinal, traditional medicine Translations (shamanistic healer): klog kone [common-gender] (Danish), medicinkvinde [common-gender, rare] (Danish), medicijnvrouw [feminine] (Dutch), kuraculino (Esperanto), femme-médecine [feminine] (French), sorcière [feminine] (French), Medizinfrau [feminine] (German), enk-aíkoni (Maasai), medisinkvinne [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), medisinkvinne [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), babka [feminine, historical] (Polish), medicinkvinna [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-medicine_woman-en-noun-b6TnGibT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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