"licorice root" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-licorice root.wav Forms: licorice roots [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} licorice root (countable and uncountable, plural licorice roots)
  1. (US) The root of the liquorice plant, Glycyrrhiza glabra, from which a sweet flavoring with an anise scent is extracted. Tags: US, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-licorice_root-en-noun-cLJy9B-7 Categories (other): American English
  2. Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
    Glycyrrhiza, especially Glycyrrhiza lepidota (American licorice)
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-licorice_root-en-noun-xMpR7jLv
  3. Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
    Species of Ligusticum:
    Ligusticum grayi (Gray's licorice root)
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-licorice_root-en-noun-GDK230fE
  4. Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
    Species of Ligusticum:
    Ligusticum apiifolium (celery-leaf licorice root)
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-licorice_root-en-noun-EZxmWxIs
  5. Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
    Species of Ligusticum:
    Ligusticum californicum (California licorice root)
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-licorice_root-en-noun-Y8uU-6Fq
  6. Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
    Species of Ligusticum:
    Ligusticum canadense (Canadian licorice root)
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-licorice_root-en-noun-Dqai4lX9
  7. Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
    Species of Ligusticum:
    Ligusticum canbyi (Canby's licorice root)
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Tea Categories (lifeform): Legumes, Scandiceae tribe plants
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  8. Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
    Species of Ligusticum:
    Ligusticum filicinum (fernleaf licorice root)
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-licorice_root-en-noun-mrpSMfsJ
  9. Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
    Species of Ligusticum:
    Ligusticum calderi (Calder's licorice root)
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-licorice_root-en-noun-lRlPIoqR
  10. Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
    Species of Ligusticum:
    Ligusticum porteri (Porter's licorice root)
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-licorice_root-en-noun-Jt8T5uAe
  11. Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
    Species of Ligusticum:
    Ligusticum tenuifolium (Idaho licorice root)
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-licorice_root-en-noun-xVlq1dO3
  12. Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
    Species of Ligusticum:
    Ligusticum verticillatum (northern licorice root
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-licorice_root-en-noun-FMF-VOx2
  13. Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
    Osmorhiza longistylis (aniseroot)
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-licorice_root-en-noun-mJJqVdQR
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: liquorice root [UK]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (e4a2c88 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.