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Definitions: Liquorice |
LiquoriceNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "liquorice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1664. (references) |
Synonym: LiquoriceSynonym: licorice (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Liquorice (Br) or licorice (Am) is the plant, Glycyrrhiza glabra, in the Family Fabaceae from which a sweet flavour can be extracted. The liquorice plant is a legume related to beans and pea and native to southern Europe and parts of Asia. Very little commercial liquorice is grown in North America, but wild liquorice (G. lepidota) is quite common.
Liquorice is a highly effective cough remedy (expectorant), and has been used for this purpose since ancient times.
Liquorice extract is produced by boiling liquorice root and subsequently evaporating all or most of the water. Liquorice extract is traded both in solid and syrup form. Its active principle is glycyrrhizin, a sweetener more than 50 times as sweet as sucrose.
The flavour is common in medicines to disguise unpleasant flavours. Liquorice can also be found in many candies. The most popular in the United Kingdom and North America are very sweet Liquorice Allsorts. In continental Europe, however, far stronger, saltier, candies are preferred. Liquorice is also found in some soft drinks.
Liquorice is a mild laxative.
The word liquorice means 'sweet root' in Ancient Greek.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Liquorice."
Crosswords: Liquorice |
| English words defined with "liquorice": American liquorice ♦ Italian juice ♦ Lokorys ♦ wild liquorice. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "liquorice": crab's-eye vine ♦ Indian licorice ♦ precatory bean ♦ Q.S ♦ rosary pea. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "liquorice": Lokorys. (references) |
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| "Liquorice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.72% of the time. "Liquorice" is used about 47 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) | 78.72% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (proper) | 19.15% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "liquorice": american liquorice ♦ wild liquorice. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "liquorice": liquorice-coloured, liquorice-tasting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
liquorice | 24 |
liquorice root | 4 |
liquorice stimorol | 2 |
kookaburra liquorice | 2 |
liquorice allsorts | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "liquorice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | السوس عرق السوس. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | корен на женско биле, женско биле (licorice), бонбон от корена на женско биле (licorice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | lékořice (licorice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lakridsrod (common licorice), lakridsplante (common licorice, licorice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zoethout (common licorice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lakritsikasvi (common licorice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réglisse (licorice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | süßholz (licorice), lakritze (licorice), lakritz (licorice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γλυκόρριζα, γλυκύρριζα η άτριχος (common licorice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | édesfa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | liquirizia (licorice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 甘草 (licorice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かんぞう (licorice, liver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shugyr dhoo, liggrys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | lakris (licorice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iquoricelay loja de bebidas alcoólicas, regoliz (common licorice), alcaçuz (licorice root, lira). (various references) lemn dulce. (various references) лакричник (licorice). (various references) carra-meille (wild liquorice), cairmeal (wild liquorice). (various references) gospino bilje. (various references) regaliz (licorice). (various references) lakrits (licorice). (various references) meyankökü (licorice). (various references) локриця (licorice). (various references) cam thảo (licorice, sweet-root). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Glycyrrhiza glabra. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "liquorice": liquorices. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-l-o-q-r-u" | |
-1 letter: cliquier. | |
-3 letters: cirque, clique, cloque, coiler, colure, liquor, oilier, recoil. | |
-4 letters: ceorl, clour, cruel, curie, curio, icier, louie, lucre, oculi, oiler, oleic, oriel, ourie, quire, relic, reoil, roque, ulcer, ureic. | |
-5 letters: ceil, cero, cire, clue, coil, coir, cole, core, cure, curl, ecru, euro, lice, lier, lieu, lire, liri, loci, lore, lour, luce, lure, orle. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-l-o-q-r-u" | |
+1 letter: liquorices. | |
+2 letters: equicaloric. | |
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