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mandrake/ˈmændreik/n. a poisonous plant, Mandragora officinarum, with white or purple flowers and large yellow fruit, having emetic and narcotic properties and possessing a root once thought to resemble the human form and to shriek when plucked 曼德拉草(根似人形) [Middle English mandrag(g)e, probably via Middle Dutch mandrag(r)e from medieval Latin (as MANDRAGORA): associated with MAN + drake ‘dragon’] |