Definition of Genus Mandragora

1. Noun. A genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceae.

Exact synonyms: Mandragora
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

genus Malcolmia
genus Mallotus
genus Malope
genus Malopterurus
genus Malosma
genus Malpighia
genus Malus
genus Malva
genus Malvastrum
genus Malvaviscus
genus Mammea
genus Mammillaria
genus Mammut
genus Mammuthus
genus Mandevilla
genus Mandragora (current term)
genus Mandrillus
genus Manduca
genus Mangifera
genus Manihot
genus Manilkara
genus Manis
genus Manta
genus Mantis
genus Maranta
genus Marasmius
genus Marattia
genus Marchantia
genus Marmota
genus Marrubium

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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