mandragora

[ man-drag-er-uh, man-druh-gawr-uh, -gohr-uh ]

noun

1. mandrake ( def 1 ).
2. a mandrake root.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mandragora¹

before 1000; Middle English, Old English < Medieval Latin, Latin mandragorās < Greek mandragórās

Example Sentences

Kashkin was one of the friends who dissuaded Tchaikovsky from composing Mandragora.

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But I shall have fled, how I know not; haply mandragora will lure my weary mind to rest.

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The originality of Machiavelli in his Mandragora was not of the sort to encourage a departure from the beaten track.

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Atropa Mandragor, female mandragora, main de gloire, herbe aux magiciens.

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Probably the use of mandragora as a narcotic may have continued much later than the thirteenth century.

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