How to pronounce mandrake
American English pronunciation
MAN-drayk
- IPA
- /ˈmændɹeɪk/
- Syllables
- MAN · drayk (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What mandrake means
A plant whose forked root looks like a tiny person
In a sentence: In the old legend, a mandrake would scream when someone pulled it from the ground.
Where it comes from: It comes from mandragora, the Latin and Greek name for the plant. People took the end of the name to mean dragon and swapped in drake, an old English word for a dragon.
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