mandrágora

Definiciones

(Mandragora spp.) Cualquiera de varias especies de planta herbácea solanácea sin tallo, abundantes hojas pecioladas y flores y frutos de olor fétido. Tiene propiedades narcóticas y es notoria su raíz de forma semejante a la de una persona, lo que le confiere características míticas y legendarias como planta de relevancia pagana.

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“—though she did not know whether her⟳ supposed rival was dead or alive, whether the complaints she at once pitied and resented were those which "poppy and mandragora" might medicine, or "those written troubles of the brain" which were incapable of cure, she contrived to make up for herself a draught of most terrible infliction.”

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