Etymology

Yellow Medicine County

Today it means: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Granite Falls. Full definition →

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Named after the Yellow Medicine River (whose name derives from a plant whose yellow root the native Dakota people used for medicinal purposes)

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.