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bush medicine

bush medicine noun: the traditional medicinal and health practices of Indigenous Australians.

Noun

bush medicine (plural bush medicines)

  1. The traditional medicinal and health practices of Indigenous Australians.
  2. A plant, preparation, etc., used in bush medicine.
    • I'll think of how the kids come alive walking around sandplains / reading tracks, looking for goannas, digging up witchetty grubs / collecting berries, branches of bush medicines.2022, Meg Mooney, Northern Territory Literary Awards, page 33

Forms of bush medicine

pluralbush medicines

Questions about bush medicine

What does bush medicine mean?
Bush medicine means the traditional medicinal and health practices of Indigenous Australians.
What part of speech is bush medicine?
Bush medicine is a noun.
What is the plural of bush medicine?
The plural of bush medicine is bush medicines.

Words near bush medicine in the dictionary

  1. bush lot
  2. bush lots
  3. bush mango
  4. bush mangos
  5. bush meat
  6. bush medicine
  7. bush medicines
  8. bush moa
  9. bush moas
  10. bush muhly
  11. Bush Negro

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