mandrake
/ˈmændreɪk/noun
1- a Mediterranean plant of the nightshade family, with white or purple flowers and large yellow berries. It has a forked fleshy root which supposedly resembles the human form and was formerly widely used in medicine and magic, allegedly shrieking when pulled from the ground.曼德拉草。
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- Mandragora officinarum, family Solanaceae.拉丁名Mandragora officinarum, 茄科。
词源
Middle English mandrag（g）e, from Middle Dutch mandrag（r）e, from medieval Latin mandragora; associated with MAN (because of the shape of its root) + drake in the Old English sense 'dragon'.