devil's apples

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   a plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers

   SynonymsmandrakeMandragora officinarum

   Broaderherb

   Part ofMandragora

   Partsmandrake root

Questions about devil's apples

What does devil's apples mean?

devil's apples means "a plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers".

What is another word for devil's apples?

Close synonyms include mandrake, Mandragora officinarum. 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 devil's apples a common word?

devil's apples 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.