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Definition of Genus Mandragora
1. Noun. A genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceae.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Solanaceae, Potato Family, Solanaceae
Member holonyms: Devil's Apples, Mandragora Officinarum, Mandrake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mandragora
Literary usage of Genus Mandragora
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"A plant of the genus Mandragora. The mandrake has poisonous properties, and acts
as an emetic, purgative, and narcotic. It was in иве in ancient times ..."
2. A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1895)
"The root of a plant of the genus mandragora, which was popularly supposed to
shriek on being pulled up. The resemblance of its forked structure to the human ..."
3. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1878)
"The species called Mandrake by modern botaniste belong to the genus Mandragora,
This genus is included in the same natural order as the Solanum. ..."
4. The homœopathic vade mecum of modern medicine and surgery by Edward Harris Ruddock (1871)
"This plant, of the genus Mandragora, is probably the same as that of which we
read in the Scriptures as the mandrake. Its fruit, which is round and yellow, ..."
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