• n. 曼德拉草（可作鎮靜藥用）

一種麻醉藥藥物，含劇毒。來自希臘語mandragoras,可能最終來自梵語。俗詞源認為該詞來自man,人，drake,公鴨，公鴨叫聲，因這種植物根形如人形，傳說從土中拉出來會發出尖叫聲，聽到這種叫聲的人都會 去。也稱為曼陀羅花，情花。參照金庸小說《神雕俠侶》。

mandrake

mandrake: [14] The mandrake is a Mediterranean plant of the potato family with medicinal uses. Its name is an alteration of mandragora, which goes back via Latin to Greek mandragóras, a word probably of non- Indo-European origin. The change arose owing to an association with man (the mandrake has a large forked root which supposedly resembles a human being) and drake ‘dragon’ (an allusion to the root’s supposedly magical properties).

mandrake (n.)

narcotic plant, early 14c., mondrake, from Medieval Latin mandragora, from Latin mandragoras, from Greek mandragoras, probably from a non-Indo-European word. The word was in late Old English in its Latin form; folk etymology associated the second element with dragoun and substituted native drake in its place. The forked root is thought to resemble a human body and is said to shriek when pulled from the ground.

1. The antidote is made from mandrake roots ( CS 9 ) .

解藥須用 曼德拉 草根做成.

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