Meaning of womandrake | Babel Free

Definitions

A white form of the plant mandrake, or one with a white root.

rare

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.”

“In folklore, there are considered to be Mandrakes and Womandrakes, the former being white, the latter black.”

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