Licorice

Definitions: Licorice

Licorice

Noun

1. Deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots.

2. A black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant.

Date "licorice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonym: Licorice

Synonym: liquorice (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Licorice

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Sweetness	Sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai, sorghum, taffy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Licorice

English words defined with "licorice": American licorice, American liquorice ♦ Glycyrrhiza lepidota, Glycyrrhizin ♦ Lentinus lepideus, licorice fern, licorice root, licorice stick, Licorice sugar, Licorice weed, liquorice ♦ Mountain licorice, Multum ♦ sambuca, scaly lentinus, Spanish juice, Sweetroot ♦ wild licorice, wild liquorice. (references)

Specialty definitions using "licorice": Carbenoxolone, CASING FLUID ♦ Glycyrrhizic Acid ♦ Indian licorice ♦ organic colloid ♦ sweet anise. (references)

Etymologies containing "licorice": Glycyrrhiza. (references)

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Modern Usage: Licorice

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Nails are like candy to robots, and we'll eat tires instead of licorice. (Sealab 2021; writing credit: John J. Miller; Adam Reed) You don't need a machine to make a rainbow for rainbows are made of happy thoughts and dreams and chocolate unicorns and gumdrops and licorice sunsets and fuzzy gum drops bears and chocolate covered chocolate gumdrop land (Aqua Teen Hunger Force; writing credit: Matt Maiellaro; Dave Willis)
Lyrics	Flows girls say he's sweet like licorice (Hypnotize; performing artist: The Notorious B.I.G.)
Tongue Twisters	Eleven elves licked eleven little licorice lollipops. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	The Christian Licorice Store (1971) Licorice Stick (2001) Black Licorice (1985)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Licorice

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Licorice Roots: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Blueberries, Barnacles and Licorice Shoestrings (reference) Licorice (reference) Licorice Chronicles (reference) Licorice Root (reference) Nutraceuticals-Designer Foods III: Garlic, Soy and Licorice (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Black Licorice (reference) Licorice Root Orchestra (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Licorice

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Usage Frequency: Licorice

"Licorice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Licorice" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Licorice

Expressions using "licorice": american licorice ♦ Deglycyrrhizinated Licorice (DGL) ♦ Indian licorice ♦ licorice fern ♦ licorice root ♦ licorice stick ♦ Licorice sugar ♦ licorice vetch ♦ Licorice weed ♦ mountain licorice ♦ Spanish Licorice ♦ wild licorice. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "licorice": licorice-straps.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Licorice

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
licorice	369	panda licorice	7
licorice root	112	licorice black candy	6
black licorice	34	red licorice	6
licorice plant	30	licorice stick	6
licorice candy	27	sugar free licorice	6
deglycyrrhizinated licorice	19	herb licorice like	6
flavor licorice	17	licorice lace	6
american licorice company	17	licorice sars	5
dutch licorice	14	salt licorice	5
licorice snap	13	licorice pipe	5
american licorice	12	australian licorice	5
red vine licorice	12	licorice ice cream	5
licorice recipe	10	candy licorice recipe	5
licorice extract	10	licorice skin whitening	5
licorice herb	9	licorice history	4
licorice tea	8	american licorice co	4
kookaburra licorice	8	licorice nibs	4
licorice root mulch	8	switzer licorice	4
dgl licorice	8	licorice allsorts	4
switzers licorice	8	chocolate licorice	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Licorice

Language		Translations for "licorice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		jamball. (various references)

Arabic		‏عرق السوس, ‏السوس. (various references)

Blackfoot		ááhsowa. (various references)

Bulgarian		женско биле (liquorice), бонбон от корена на женско биле (liquorice). (various references)

Chinese		欧亚�"�草. (various references)

Czech		lékořice (liquorice), sladké dřevo. (various references)

Danish		lakridsplante (common licorice, liquorice), lakrids (black Russian). (various references)

Dutch		drop (drip, drop), blokdrop. (various references)

Farsi		مهک(glycyrrhizaglabra). (various references)

Finnish		lakritsi (liquorice). (various references)

French		réglisse (common licorice, liquorice). (various references)

German		lakritze (liquorice), lakritz (liquorice), süßholz (common licorice, liquorice). (various references)

Greek		γλυκόριζα. (various references)

Hungarian		édesgyökér (liquorice), medvecukor (liquorice). (various references)

Indonesian		kayu manis. (various references)

Italian		liquirizia (common licorice, liquorice). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		蕗草 , �"�草 (liquorice). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		か�"ぞう (liquorice, liver), ろそう. (various references)

Korean		감초. (various references)

Norwegian		lakris (liquorice). (various references)

Pig Latin		icoricelay

Portuguese		pasta de Alcaçuz, bajulador (adulator, courtier, flattering, flunkey, fulsome, groveller, smarmy, smooth, toad-eater, toady, truckler). (various references)

Russian		лакричник (liquorice), лакрица (liquorice). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sladić. (various references)

Spanish		regaliz (common licorice, liquorice). (various references)

Swedish		lakrits (liquorice). (various references)

Turkish		meyankökü (liquorice). (various references)

Ukranian		локриця (liquorice). (various references)

Vietnamese		cam thảo (liquorice, sweet-root). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Licorice

Derivations
	Words beginning with "licorice": licorices. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Licorice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gligoric, Icaricia, lebovic, lekovic, licoricone, Lochrie, Lodoicea, Lycorea, lycorys. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Licorice"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "licorice" (pronounced li"kerish)
3	-er i sh	amateurish, gibberish.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Licorice

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-i-l-o-r"
	-2 letters: cicero, cilice, circle, cleric, coiler, icicle, oilier, recoil.
	-3 letters: ceorl, cerci, ceric, colic, croci, icier, oiler, oleic, oriel, relic, reoil.
	-4 letters: ceil, cero, cire, coil, coir, cole, core, croc, lice, lier, lire, liri, loci, lore, orle, rice, riel, rile, roil, role.
	-5 letters: cel, col, cor, ice, ire, lei, lie, oil, ole, orc, ore, rec.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-i-l-o-r"
	+1 letter: licorices.
	+2 letters: cliometric, microcline, uricotelic.
	+3 letters: bioelectric, cholinergic, cliometrics, crocidolite, equicaloric, incoercible, isoelectric, microclines, micronuclei, necrophilic, reconciling.
	+4 letters: calorimetric, colorimetric, crocidolites, exorcistical, heliocentric, heroicomical, intervocalic, microclimate, necrophiliac, overcritical.
	+5 letters: bacteriologic, bacteriolytic, bioelectrical, cliometrician, commercialise, commercialism, commercialist, commerciality, commercialize, electrophilic, intercortical, isoelectronic, lexicographic, microcephalic, microclimates, microparticle, necrophiliacs, piezoelectric, prolificacies, radiochemical, recirculation, triboelectric.
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