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Mandrake root   /mˈændrˌeɪk rut/   Listen
Mandrake root

noun
1.
The root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic.  Synonym: mandrake.





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"Mandrake root" Quotes from Famous Books



... by pressing a bird or small animal to the diseased part and hastily driving the creature away. The ever-willing and convenient family dog might be brought into service on such an occasion by being fed a cake made of barley meal and the sick man's saliva, or by being fastened with a string to a mandrake root, which, when thus pulled from the ground, tore the demon ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86


Words linked to "Mandrake root" :   devil's apples, root, Mandragora officinarum


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