Mandrake

Definitions: Mandrake

Mandrake

Noun

1. The root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic.

2. A plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers.

Date "mandrake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Mandrake

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Mandrake The root of the mandragora often divides itself in two, and presents a rude appearance of a man. In ancient times human figures were often cut out of the root, and wonderful virtues ascribed to them. It was used to produce fecundity in women (Gen. xxx. 14-16). Some mandrakes cannot be pulled from the earth without producing fatal effects, so a cord used to be fixed to the root, and round a dog's neck, and the dog being chased drew out the mandrake and died. Another superstition is that when the mandrake is uprooted it utters a scream, in explanation of which Thomas Newton, in his Herball to the Bible, says, "It is supposed to be a creature having life, engendered under the earth of the seed of some dead person put to death for murder." "Shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth." Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, iv. 3. Mandrakes called love-apples. From the old notion that they excited amorous inclinations; hence Venus is called Mandragoritis, and the Emperor Julian, in his epistles, tells Calixenes that he drank its juice nightly as a love-potion. He has eaten mandrake. Said of a very indolent and sleepy man, from the narcotic and stupefying properties of the plant, well known to the ancients. "Give me to drink mandragora ... That I might sleep out this great gap of time My Antony is away." Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, i. 5. Mandrake. Another superstition connected with this plant is that a small dose makes a person vain of his beauty, and conceited; but that a large dose makes him an idiot. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Mandrake

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Mandrake is the common name for the plant Mandragora, whose roots, because their curious bifurcation cause them to have a semblance to the human figure, have long been used in witchcraft. It is alleged by adherents of the dark arts that when the plant is pulled from the ground, it shrieks in pain.

Other uses of this term include:

Mandragola, a comedic play written by Niccolo Machiavelli in 1518.
Mandrake Linux
Mandrake the Magician

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mandrake."

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Synonyms: Mandrake

Synonyms: devil's apples (n), mandrake root (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Mandrake

English words defined with "mandrake": Mandragorite, mandrake root, May apple ♦ wild mandrake. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mandrake": Devil's Apple, Devil's Candle ♦ Podophyllotoxin. (references)

Etymologies containing "mandrake": Mandragora. (references)

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Modern Usage: Mandrake

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I mean, about Mr. Cedar going all the way to Mandrake Falls to bring them here. (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin) That's fine, hm, I guess maybe I am. And now tell me something, Jane: who else in Mandrake Falls is pixilated? (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; writing credit: Mary Shelley; Peggy Webling) Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick)
Movie/TV Titles	Mandrake killing'e karsi (1967)
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Commercial Usage: Mandrake

Domain	Title
Books	Linux Mandrake 6 Unleashed (reference) Mandrake (reference) Sarah Mandrake (reference) The Deadly Mandrake (reference) The Mandrake. (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Mandrake the Magician (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Mandrake in the Corner (reference) Mandrake (reference) Mandrake Memorial (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Mandrake Gaming Edition (reference) Mandrake Linux PowerPack Edition 8.2 (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Image Slideshow: Mandrake

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Photo Album: Mandrake

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[Male mandrake root].Credit: National Library of Medicine.		[Female mandrake root].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Mandrake the magician. Mandrake and Colonel Barton are captured by the Amazon warriors of Amoz Island!.Credit: Library of Congress.		Mandrake the magician. Lothar vanquishes Tula, the Hawk's knife-thrower.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Mandrake

"Mandrake" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 45.45% of the time. "Mandrake" is used about 11 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 (proper)	45.45%	5	157,705
Noun (singular)	45.45%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)	9.09%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

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Expressions: Mandrake

Expressions using "mandrake": mandrake root ♦ wild mandrake. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mandrake

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
mandrake	732
mandrake linux	519
9.1 mandrake	128
9.1 linux mandrake	51
mandrake root	35
mandrake download	34
9.1 download mandrake	25
mandrake plant	23
mandrake the magician	21
mandrake 9.0	14
mandrake 9	14
9.0 linux mandrake	13
9.1 download linux mandrake	10
mandrake herb	10
install linux mandrake	9
boot disk mandrake	8
downloads linux mandrake	8
mandrake linux 9	7
download free linux mandrake	6
iso mandrake	6
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Modern Translations: Mandrake

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

Arabic		‏اليبروج نبات, ‏اللفاح نبات. (various references)

Bulgarian		мандрагора. (various references)

Czech		mandragora. (various references)

Danish		alrune (mandragora). (various references)

Dutch		mandragora (mandragora), alruinwortel (mandragora), alruinmannetje (mandragora), alruin (mandragora). (various references)

French		mandragore (mandragora). (various references)

German		Alraun (mandragora). (various references)

Greek		μανδραγόρασ, μανδραγόρας (belladona, belladonna, deadly nightshade, great morel, mandragora), μανδραγόρα (mandragora), μανδραγούρας (mandragora). (various references)

Hebrew		�"ו�"א (manragora). (various references)

Hungarian		mandragóra (mandragora). (various references)

Italian		mandragora (mandragora). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		マントル対流論 (a mannerism, mandarin, mandolin, Manhattan, manna, mannan, mannerism, mantle convection theory). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		マンドレーク , マンドレイク . (various references)

Manx		mandrag. (various references)

Pig Latin		andrakemay

Portuguese		mendrácula (mandragora), mandrágora (mandragora, mandrel, may day), mandolim (mandoline). (various references)

Russian		мандрагора (May-apple). (various references)

Scottish		mandrag. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mandragora. (various references)

Spanish		mandrágora (mandragora, may apple). (various references)

Swedish		alruna (mandragora). (various references)

Turkish		kankurutan, adamotu. (various references)

Ukranian		мандрагора. (various references)
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Ancestral Language Translations: Mandrake

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Mandragora, Mandragora officinarum, mandragorae, mandragoras, mandragoris. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Mandrake

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mandrake": mandrakes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mandrake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Madaki, Mamrak, mandare, Mandira, Mandjak, mandora, mandra, mandraki, Mandrika, Mbandaka. (additional references)
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Rhyming with "Mandrake"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mandrake" (pronounced ma"ndrā'k)
3	-r ā' k	daybreak, heartbreak, muckrake, outbreak.
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Anagrams: Mandrake

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-k-m-n-r"
	-2 letters: anadem, damner, danker, darken, demark, maenad, marked, medaka, narked, ranked, remand.
	-3 letters: adman, admen, amend, anear, arena, armed, daman, damar, denar, derma, drake, drama, drank, dream, karma, knead, madre, makar, maker, maned, menad, naked, named, namer, raked, ramen, redan, reman.
	-4 letters: amen, arak, area, dame, damn, dank, dare, dark, darn, dean, dear, derm, dram, drek, earn, kame, kana, kane, karn, kern, knar, maar, made, make, mana, mane, mare, mark, mead, mean, mend, merk, nada, name, nard, nark, near, nema, nerd, rake, rand, rank, read, ream, rend.
	-5 letters: ama, ana, and, ane, are, ark, arm, dak, dam, den, ear, end, era, ern, kae, kea, ken, mad, mae, man, mar, med, men, nae, nam, rad, ram, ran, red, rem.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-k-m-n-r"
	+1 letter: mandrakes.
	+3 letters: unearmarked.
	+4 letters: trademarking.
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