MANDRAGORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mandragora mean? 

• MANDRAGORA (noun)
  The noun MANDRAGORA has 1 sense:

1. a genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceae

  Familiarity information: MANDRAGORA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANDRAGORA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Mandragora; Mandragora

Hypernyms ("Mandragora" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Mandragora"):

devil's apples; Mandragora officinarum; mandrake (a plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers)

Holonyms ("Mandragora" is a member of...):

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)