muti

plural mutis

1. South AfricacountableuncountableTraditional African medicine.First known use 19th c.

   Lekota's handing on a plate ammunition against himself, scrapping our genuine African herb medicine, Affirmative Action, that national muti.

   2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 300

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   The witchdoctor shop with its muti, its vulture eggs, the skins and hair and nails and horns and unmentionable excretions, its useless whorl of incense; and the Indian owner glaring at one like a dark wooden mask.

   1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 179

plural Mutis

1. A surname from Italian.