Definitions
a plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers
Word origin
From Middle English mandrake, mandroke, an alteration of mandragora with the ending -dragora reinterpreted as related to dragon and replaced with native drake, from Old English mandragora, from Medieval Latin mandragorās, from Ancient Greek μανδραγόρας (mandragóras).
Used in a sentence
“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[.]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Folkloric root”8 letters
02“Forked root plant”8 letters
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