liquorice

[ lik-uh-rish, lik-rish, lik-er-is ]

nounChiefly British.
  1. a variant of licorice.

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How to use liquorice in a sentence

  • Make a strong tea of everlasting—strain, and put to a quart of it two ounces of figs or raisins, two of liquorice, cut in bits.

British Dictionary definitions for liquorice

liquorice

US and Canadian licorice

/ (ˈlɪkərɪs, -ərɪʃ) /


noun
  1. a perennial Mediterranean leguminous shrub, Glycyrrhiza glabra, having spikes of pale blue flowers and flat red-brown pods

  2. the dried root of this plant, used as a laxative and in confectionery

  1. a sweet having a liquorice flavour

Origin of liquorice

1
C13: via Anglo-Norman and Old French from Late Latin liquirītia, from Latin glycyrrhīza, from Greek glukurrhiza, from glukus sweet + rhiza root

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