mandrake in English

noun
1
a Mediterranean plant of the nightshade family, with white or purple flowers and large yellow berries. It has a forked fleshy root that supposedly resembles the human form and was formerly widely used in medicine and magic, allegedly shrieking when pulled from the ground.
This is true of many old medicinal plants like the mandrake , an herb which grows around the Mediterranean.

Use "mandrake" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "mandrake" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "mandrake", or refer to the context using the word "mandrake" in the English Dictionary.

1. You grasp your Mandrake firmly.

2. Henbane, bark of mandrake and juice of lettuce.

3. Nevertheless... we... we pushed on towards the Ogowe River... plagued by mandrake flies.

4. 23 And if Mandrake goes public, however ill founded his claims, it could be the ruin of my brokerage.

5. Mandrake Cordial is considered an alchemy ingredient in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and thus can't be consumed like regular drinks

6. ‘Flowers range from peonies, delphiniums, various brooms and gorses, mallows, asters and periwinkle through to Buglosses, mandrake, daises, narcissi, irises and orchids.’ More example sentences ‘Viper's bugloss was introduced from Europe in colonial times.’