Mandrake.
(Of thelat.)(domandrag? ra, and this of theg ?).
1. f. herbaceous plant of the family Solanaceae, without stem with many leaves petioled, very large, oval, rough, wavy margin and dark green, flowers of odor-shaped Bell, whitish and reddish in Group placed in the center of the leaves, resembling a small Apple berry fruit, round, smooth, fleshy and smelling, and thick, fusiform and often forked root. It has been used in medicine as a narcotic, and about their properties ran in antiquity many Fables.
