Usually means: Sweet, chewy, flavored root extract.
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  1. licorice: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. licorice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. licorice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Licorice, licorice: Wordnik
  7. licorice: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. licorice: Wiktionary
  9. licorice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  14. licorice: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Licorice (color), Licorice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Licorice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. licorice: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  19. Licorice: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. licorice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  1. licorice: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
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  6. Licorice: Glossary of Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products
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  1. licorice: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. licorice: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) A plant of species Glycyrrhiza glabra, or sometimes in North America, the related American licorice plant Glycyrrhiza lepidota.
noun:  (uncountable) A type of candy made from that plant's dried root or its extract.
noun:  (countable and uncountable) A black color, named after the licorice.
noun:  (uncountable, chemistry) A flavoring agent made from dried root portions of the aforementioned plant.
noun:  (uncountable) A supposed aphrodisiac made in the past from dried roots of Glycyrrhiza glabra and Glycyrrhiza echinata.

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