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    GENUS MANDRAGORA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Mandragora; Mandragora

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Mandragora" is a kind of...):

    asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Mandragora"):

    devil's apples; Mandragora officinarum; mandrake (a plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers)

    Holonyms ("genus Mandragora" is a member of...):

    family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)

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