Usage examples for mandrake
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The dog- fish then assumed a terrestrial form and became simply the dog who plays such a strange part in the magical ceremony of digging up the mandrake. – The Evolution of the Dragon by G. Elliot Smith
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Both mandrake and periwinkle were supposed to be endowed with mysterious powers against demoniacal possession. – The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
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A few paces farther on, in the bottom of a little spring run, the mandrake shades the ground with its miniature umbrellas. – Wake-Robin by John Burroughs