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bush medicines

bush medicines is the plural of bush medicine.

Meaning of bush medicine

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

Questions about bush medicines

What is bush medicines the plural of?
Bush medicines is the plural of bush medicine.

Words near bush medicines in the dictionary

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

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