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Licorice

noun

(Written also liquorice)

Deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots. Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, liquorice.

A black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant. Synonym: liquorice.

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"Licorice" Quotes from Famous Books

... lickerish tempting to the appetite, causing one to lick one's lips. The student should carefully distinguish the three words lickerish (as above), liquorish (which is really meaningless) and liquorice ( licorice Lat. glycyrrhiza), a ...

— Milton's Comus • John Milton

... and tawdriness that exhausted the savings and pilferings of a twelvemonth. Good-natured "missies" often helped make these outfits. They were of velvet, silk, satin, cotton lace, false flowers, the brilliant seeds of the licorice and coquelicot, tinsel, beads, and pinch-beck. Sometimes mistresses even lent—firmly sewed fast—their ...

— The Flower of the Chapdelaines • George W. Cable

... uncle has been pestering me to write to you but Pepsy has been using the pen for her school exercise and I couldn't get hold of it till today when she went away with Wiggle, perch fishing. Licorice Stick says they're running in the brook most wonderful but you can't believe half what he says. Seems as if the perch know when school closes, least ways ...

— Pee-wee Harris • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Words linked to "Licorice" : candy, herbaceous plant, herb, genus Glycyrrhiza, Glycyrrhiza, wild licorice, confect