Crossword-Solution: MANDRAKE
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| Mandrake | n. | A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region. |
| Mandrake | n. | The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). See May apple under May, and Podophyllum. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “MANDRAKE”
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| Herb once thought to be an aphrodisiac | 1 answer |
| plant with a forked root, formerly used as a narcotic | 1 answer |
| Witch's root | 1 answer |
| Plant with forked root. | 1 answer |
| Nightshade family member [5] | 1 answer |
| Narcotic root | 1 answer |
| May apple or magician | 1 answer |
| Magician of the comics | 1 answer |
| Magician of comics | 1 answer |
| Herb with large forked root. | 1 answer |
| Flowering plant long used in magic rituals | 1 answer |
| Fictional magician | 1 answer |
| Comic-strip magician | 1 answer |
| Comic-strip conjurer | 1 answer |
| Comic strip magician | 1 answer |
| "Funnies" magician | 1 answer |
| May Apple | 2 answers |
| Medical plant | 2 answers |
| MANDRAGORA | 4 answers |
| narcotic plant | 10 answers |
| MEDITERRANEAN plant | 11 answers |
| woodland plant | 22 answers |
| anodyne | 32 answers |
| poisonous plant | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MANDRAKE (5)
Orion: There is nothing but what will do you good; And the drugs are simples; 'tis hellebore, Nepenthe, upas, and dragon's blood, Absinthe, and mandrake, and mandragore.
Woodman, is your courage stout? Beware! the root is wrapped about Your mother's heart, your father's bones; And like the mandrake comes with groans.
They chatter in swarms over the wild-cherry trees, and overload their crops with red haws, wild plums, papaws, blackberries and mandrake.
Among the numberless fruits which from time to time have been regarded as divine emblems, the principal are perhaps the fig, the pomegranate, the mandrake, the almond, and the olive.
Why, there wasn’t a nook or a corner that some fibre had not worked its way into; and when I gave the last wrench, each of them seemed to shriek like a mandrake, as it broke its hold and came away.
Quotes with MANDRAKE (3)
Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee, Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me, All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear, No where Lives a woman true and fair.
Are you trying to call me strange, Mandrake?” I pout playfully. He nods. “Your strange is what makes you sensational to me.
Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1955–2018).