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Noun: wild licorice
  1. Bedstraw with sweetish roots
    - Galium lanceolatum
     
  2. North American plant similar to true liquorice and having a root with similar properties
    - wild liquorice, American licorice, American liquorice, Glycyrrhiza lepidota
     
  3. European perennial
    - wild liquorice, Astragalus glycyphyllos

Derived forms: wild licorices

Type of: bedstraw, herb, herbaceous plant, milk vetch, milk-vetch

Part of: genus Glycyrrhiza, Glycyrrhiza

Encyclopedia: Wild licorice