Mandrake

Definitions

1. Any plant of the genus Mandragora, certain of which are said to have medicinal or aphrodisiac properties; the root of these plants often resembles the shape of a small person, hence occasioning various mythic, magical, or occult uses.
   countable, uncountable
2. A root of a mandrake plant that resembled human form, especially one kept or used for magic or occult purposes.
   countable, uncountable
3. The drug methaqualone.
   countable, slang, uncountable
4. A kind of tiny demon immune to fire.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“[T]his is the true deſcription of the plant⟳ and therefore thoſe idle formes of the Mandrakes and Womandrakes, as they are fooliſhly ſo called, which have⟳ beene expoſed to publike view⟳, both in ours and other lands and countries, are utterly deceitfull being the work⟳ of cunning knaves, onely to get⟳ mony by their forgery.”

“Pharmaceutically tested in recent times, mandrake show⟳ aphrodisiac properties.”

“Mandrakes were sometimes considered in the light⟳ of familiars. Witches kept both male and female specimens of the magic root in bottles[.]”

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