NOUN
- deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots
- a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant
How To Use liquorice In A Sentence
- Take of paregoric, liquorice and gum arabic, each an ounce, from fifty to one hundred drops of antimonial wine and two gills of hot water; mix them well together, and when cold, bottle, and cork it tight; take two tea-spoonsful at a time; if it should nauseate, give a smaller quantity. Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
- A whoosh of freshly ground mocha coffee hits the nose and then, once the wine hits your mouth, it's joined by black fruits, liquorice, spice and a spray of refreshing acidity.
- Apple candy, cotton wool, melon and a mere hint of liquorice.
- Less threatening contents named by Mr Milburn included sucrose, cocoa, butter, liquorice root and citric acid.
- The most effective scents for getting a genuine physical reaction were mixtures of lavender and pumpkin pie, doughnut and black liquorice, and pumpkin pie and doughnut.
- Containing dandelion, burdock, sarsparilla, milk thistle, liquorice, yellow dock, turmeric and red clover, a bottle provides about 30 servings as you dilute it with either still or sparkling water.
- Show me a menu featuring salmon poached with liquorice and served on a bed of asparagus, and I crave a corned beef sandwich.
- Church collections, school outings, Boy Scout subscriptions and so on came out of the family purse: subscriptions to the Beano, the purchase of liquorice bootlaces and suchlike fripperies were our own affair.
- Smooth and very drinkable, this delivers subtle notes of aniseed, liquorice, spice and lemon peel.
- Note other loanwords entering into Latin from Greek that show the same curious loss of g- eg. liquiritia 'liquorice' Indo-European (*)*ǵalak- 'milk'
