Translation for 'mandrake' from English to French

(common) mandrake

mandragore {f} [Mandragora officinarum]bot.T

• The root of "Mandragora officinarum", the celebrated mandrake, fabled in legend to shriek when uprooted, was often used to prepare sleeping potions, although it could prove poisonous in excess, due to its tropane alkaloid content.
• In some older classifications, the mandrake ("Mandragora officinarum") has been placed in the genus "Atropa", under the binomial "Atropa mandragora".
• Alraune is rooted from an actual plant Mandrake, which is German for "mandragora".
• Atropine occurs naturally in a number of plants of the nightshade family, including deadly nightshade (belladonna), Jimson weed, and mandrake.
• Its common names are mayapple, American mandrake, wild mandrake, and ground lemon.

• In front of Dioscurides is an artist, seated at a lower level, painting an illustration of the mandrake root.
• Jewish writers have diverged on whether the banner of Reuben bore the symbol of a man or male child (Aben Ezrah), a mandrake, or a child holding a mandrake in his hand.
• La mandrágora (The mandrake) is the first live album of the Spanish singer-songwriters Joaquín Sabina, Javier Krahe and Alberto Pérez, which was recorded live and released by CBS in 1981.
• Mizgireva is credited with the 1938 discovery of Turkmen mandrake, "Mandragora turcomanica", rare species of mandrake from the Kopet-Dag area.
• "Mandragora autumnalis", known as mandrake or autumn mandrake, is recognized by some sources as a separate species from "Mandragora officinarum", although with different circumscriptions.

• The ancient Greeks burned mandrake as incense.
• The renowned Andalusian ophthalmologic surgeon Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi ("Abulcasis", 936–1013 AD) relied on opium and mandrake as surgical anesthetics and wrote a treatise, "al-Tasrif", that influenced medical thought well into the 16th century.