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curandero

curandero noun: a traditional Central American healer.

Noun

curandero (plural curanderos or curanderoes)

  1. A traditional Central American healer.
    • It was left for the curandero to work alone, to seek a solution in a stronger source, in some supernatural realm that might break a normal man.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 36

Forms of curandero

pluralcuranderos
pluralcuranderoes

Origin of curandero

Borrowed from Spanish curandero.

Questions about curandero

What does curandero mean?
Curandero means a traditional Central American healer.
What part of speech is curandero?
Curandero is a noun.
What is the plural of curandero?
The plural of curandero is curanderos.

Words near curandero in the dictionary

  1. curagh
  2. curaghs
  3. curandera
  4. curanderas
  5. curanderismo
  6. curandero
  7. curanderoes
  8. curanderos
  9. Curanipe
  10. curara
  11. curare

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