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glycyrrhiza

noun

glycyrrhiza is a noun meaning “Any legume (such as liquorice) of the genus Glycyrrhiza” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-L-Y-C-Y-R-R-H-I-Z-A, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of glycyrrhiza is glycyrrhizas.

What does glycyrrhiza mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any legume (such as liquorice) of the genus Glycyrrhiza.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of glycyrrhiza

  • glycyrrhizas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is glycyrrhiza?

Glycyrrhiza appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does glycyrrhiza come from?

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek γλυκύρριζα (glukúrrhiza, “sweet root, licorice”). Doublet of licorice.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).