mandragora officinarum

What does mandragora officinarum mean?

mandragora officinarum 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 mandragora officinarum?

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

mandragora officinarum 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mandragora officinarum come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.