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Date: 1100-1200
Language: Old French
Origin: Late Latin liquiritia, from Latin glycyrrhiza, from Greek, from glykys 'sweet' + rhiza 'root'

licorice

 noun
     
licorice
lic‧o‧rice [uncountable]
x-ref the American spelling of liquorice
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