mandragorite
mandragorite noun: one who uses mandrake as a narcotic drug.
Noun
mandragorite (plural mandragorites)
- One who uses mandrake as a narcotic drug
- There were those who drank of it for taste or pleasure; and who were spoken of as "mandragorites," as we might speak of alcoholics or chloralists. They passed into the land of sleep and dream, and waking up in scare and alarm were the screaming mandrakes of an ancient civilization.1879 August 16, Littell's Living Age, page 427, column 2
- A mandragorite was a term applied to one addicted to mandrake as a narcotic.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 145
Forms of mandragorite
| plural | mandragorites |
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Origin of mandragorite
From mandragora + -ite.
Questions about mandragorite
- What does mandragorite mean?
- Mandragorite means one who uses mandrake as a narcotic drug.
- What part of speech is mandragorite?
- Mandragorite is a noun.
- What is the plural of mandragorite?
- The plural of mandragorite is mandragorites.
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