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The duo’s fantastic and naive animal world has been transported onto intarsia bags swarming with pandas, penguins, bears, lemurs, otters, mandragora roots and their human friends, the release adds.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English, from Latin mandragoras, from Greek
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of mandragora was
before the 12th century
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“Mandragora.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mandragora. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
Medical Definition
mandragora
noun
man·drag·o·ra
man-ˈdrag-ə-rə
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capitalized
: a small genus of Eurasian herbs of the family Solanaceae with basal leaves, bell-shaped flowers, and fleshy berries and that includes the mandrake
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