liquorice
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How to use liquorice in a sentence
Icelanders, for example, have over two-dozen kinds of chocolate-covered liquorice, and the Japanese love their Cream Collon.
How to Get Cheaper Tickets, Live Like a Local, and Other Great Travel Hacks | Brandon Presser | June 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne branch of the local export trade to which we may refer is that in liquorice, a plant that grows wild freely on the plain.
The Cradle of Mankind | W.A. WigramHoney and a strong infusion of liquorice boiled to a proper consistence.
For internal use, an equal weight of liquorice root (sliced) is commonly added.
Hufeland recommends the addition of a little liquorice root.
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.
The American Housewife | Anonymous
British Dictionary definitions for liquorice
US and Canadian licorice
/ (ˈlɪkərɪs, -ərɪʃ) /
a perennial Mediterranean leguminous shrub, Glycyrrhiza glabra, having spikes of pale blue flowers and flat red-brown pods
the dried root of this plant, used as a laxative and in confectionery
a sweet having a liquorice flavour
Origin of liquorice
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