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A genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceae
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mandragora
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mandragora the Latin equivalent of the English "mandrake" can refer to: Any of the species of the plant genus Mandragora : Mandragora autumnalis , mandrake or autumn mandrake Mandragora caulescens , Himalayan mandrake Mandragora officinarum , mandrake or ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see mandrake .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mandragora \Man*drag"o*ra\, n. [L., mandragoras the mandrake.] (Bot.) A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake , 1.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. mandrake; often specifically mandrake root, traditionally used as a narcotic
Usage examples of mandragora.
At the third hour of the night of the day ruled by Frigg, the Vettir of love, Eir dug the mandragora roots.
The mandragora would keep it at bay for a while, confused and dissipated in sexual frenzy.
Listen, and we three will teach you what you must know to survive the mandragora and the things that will threaten you in the near future.
You shall understand, that when this caytiffe demanded of me a present and strong poyson, considering that it was not my part to give occasion of any others death, but rather to cure and save sicke persons by meane of medicines : and on the other side, fearing least if I should deny his request, I might minister a further cause of his mischiefe, either that he would buy poyson of some other, or else returne and worke his wicked intent, with a sword or some dangerous weapon, I gave him no poyson, but a doling drinke of Mandragora, which is of such force, that it will cause any man to sleepe as though he were dead.
Then I took a drop of every poisonhemlock, wolfsbane, mandragora, cherry seed pulp, brews of berries and bushes and roots, the Death Cap mushroom and the white-spotted red mushroomyes, Gordius, I took them all!
Which somehow, in a way, was what it was: the bag of Mandragora given to him by Old Pete.
I felt the pale fluid in which the mandragora was immersed had become my own blood-tinged urine.
If and when the pain begins, I shall give her bits of the bark of the mandragoras root.
To you I can give the mandragoras bark, to administer should it become necessary.
I shall take this mandragoras to the kitchen and give instructions there.
And every day, too, she required bigger and more frequent doses of mandragoras to keep the pain at bay.
Then I took a drop of every poisonhemlock, wolfsbane, mandragora, cherry seed pulp, brews of berries and bushes and roots, the Death Cap mushroom and the white-spotted red mushroomyes, Gordius, I took them all!
Stephen could not decide, shrugged, lifting his right hand, palm upwards, in a gesture that meant 'Bah, let it go,' and to himself he observed, 'However, I shall oblige him to take a black draught this evening - that at least I can do - and some comfortable mandragora.
In general Stephen Maturin was a poor sleeper, and since his youth he had turned to a number of allies against the intolerable boredom - and sometimes far, far worse than boredom, he having a most vulnerable heart - of insomnia: poppy and mandragora being the most obvious, seconded by the inspissated juice of aconite or of henbane, by datura stramonium, creeping skerit, leopard's bane.
But it is well known that the unions are not above using mandrakes, or mandragoras, as well as facsimiles, when it suits their purpose, such as for pickets, pressure groups, and the like.