wild liquorice

Questions about wild liquorice

What does wild liquorice mean?

wild liquorice means "North American plant similar to true licorice and having a root with similar properties". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wild liquorice?

Close synonyms include wild licorice, American licorice, American liquorice, Glycyrrhiza lepidota, wild licorice. 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 liquorice a common word?

wild 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.