american liquorice

1. 1.

   North American plant similar to true licorice and having a root with similar properties

   Synonymswild licoricewild liquoriceAmerican licoriceGlycyrrhiza lepidota

   Broaderherb

   Part ofGlycyrrhiza

Questions about american liquorice

What does american liquorice mean?

american liquorice means "North American plant similar to true licorice and having a root with similar properties".

What is another word for american liquorice?

Close synonyms include wild licorice, wild liquorice, American licorice, Glycyrrhiza lepidota. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is american liquorice a common word?

american liquorice is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.