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liquorice

(US licorice)

Definition of liquorice

1 [mass noun] a sweet, chewy, aromatic black substance made by evaporation from the juice of a root and used as a sweet and in medicine.
a sweet flavoured with liquorice.

2the widely distributed plant of the pea family from which liquorice is obtained.
- Genus Glycyrrhiza, family Leguminosae; many species are used locally to obtain liquorice, the chief commercial source being the cultivated G. glabra

Origin:

Middle English: from Old French licoresse, from late Latin liquiritia, from Greek glukurrhiza, from glukus 'sweet' + rhiza 'root'

Spell liquorice with -quo- in the middle (the spelling licorice is American).

Definition of liquorice in the US English dictionary

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