LIQUORICE

licorice, liquorice

(noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant

licorice, liquorice, Glycyrrhiza glabra

(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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

liquorice (countable and uncountable, plural liquorices)

United Kingdom and Ireland standard spelling of licorice.

Source: Wiktionary


Liq"uor*ice, n.

Definition: See Licorice.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

1 June 2025

BACKFIRE

(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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