medicine woman

短语

词形变化

medicine women 复数 medicine women

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A female Native American (or, any other indigenous) shamanistic healer.

    Near-synonym: shaman

词源

Probably a calque of Ojibwe mashkikiiwininiikwe (“female doctor”), from mashkiki (“medicine”) + inini (“man”) + ikwe (“woman”).

来源：wiktionary