MANDRAKE ROOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mandrake root mean? 

• MANDRAKE ROOT (noun)
  The noun MANDRAKE ROOT has 1 sense:

1. the root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic

  Familiarity information: MANDRAKE ROOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANDRAKE ROOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

mandrake; mandrake root

Hypernyms ("mandrake root" is a kind of...):

root ((botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground)

Holonyms ("mandrake root" is a part of...):

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)

 Context examples 

A semisynthetic derivative of podophyllotoxin, a substance extracted from the mandrake root Podophyllum peltatum.

(Etoposide, NCI Thesaurus)

Epipodophyllotoxin is extracted from the mandrake root Podophyllum peltatum.

(Epipodophyllotoxin, NCI Dictionary)