mandrake

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any plant of the genus Mandragora, certain of which are said to have medicinal or aphrodisiac properties; the root of these plants often resembles the shape of a small person, hence occasioning various mythic, magical, or occult uses.

   “Pharmaceutically tested in recent times, mandrake show aphrodisiac properties.”

2. isim A root of a mandrake plant that resembled human form, especially one kept or used for magic or occult purposes.

   “Mandrakes were sometimes considered in the light of familiars. Witches kept both male and female specimens of the magic root in bottles[.]”

3. isim The drug methaqualone.
4. isim A kind of tiny demon immune to fire.