wild mandrake

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   North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit

   SynonymsmayappleMay applePodophyllum peltatum

   Broaderherb

   Part ofPodophyllum

   PartsMay apple

Questions about wild mandrake

What does wild mandrake mean?

wild mandrake means "North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit".

What is another word for wild mandrake?

Close synonyms include mayapple, May apple, Podophyllum peltatum. 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 mandrake a common word?

wild mandrake 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.