Mandrake

Quick meaning: Mandrake is a noun meaning A root of a mandrake plant that resembled human form, especially one kept or used for magic or occult purposes.

Meaning

A root of a mandrake plant that resembled human form, especially one kept or used for magic or occult purposes.

More Meanings

1. (folklore) A kind of tiny demon immune to fire.
2. Any plant of the genus Mandragora, certain of which are said to have medicinal or aphrodisiac properties; the root of these plants often resembles the shape of a small person, hence occasioning various mythic, magical, or occult uses.
3. (slang) The drug methaqualone.

Example Sentences

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[.]

[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.

Word Forms

• mandrakes

Synonyms for mandrake

Depending on context, synonyms include mandragora, mandies.

Related Words

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