wild licorice

Questions about wild licorice

What does wild licorice mean?

wild licorice means "bedstraw with sweetish roots". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wild licorice?

Close synonyms include Galium lanceolatum, wild liquorice, American licorice, American liquorice, 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 wild licorice a common word?

wild licorice is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.