Usually means: Mythical creature, often a mandrake.
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noun:  (German for ) a novel by German novelist Hanns Heinz Ewers published in 1911.
noun:  a 1918 Hungarian science fiction horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and Edmund Fritz.
noun:  a 1928 German silent science fiction horror film directed by Henrik Galeen and starring Brigitte Helm in which a prostitute is artificially inseminated with the semen of a hanged man.
noun:  a German science fiction horror film directed by Richard Oswald.
noun:  Alraune, later renamed Unnatural: The Fruit of Evil, is a 1952 West German horror science fiction film, directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Hildegard Knef and Erich von Stroheim.
noun:  a fictional female character in a novel of the same name by German writer Hanns Heinz Ewers.


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