Anagrams of: MANDRAGORA

• an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government)

• the mother of your father or mother

• Grandmother

• Old lady, elderly woman

• a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

• read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning

• evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning

• any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda

• United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881)

• United States biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (1866-1945)

• a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)

• soldier in the American Revolution who defeated the British in the battle of Cowpens, South Carolina (1736-1802)

• United States financier and philanthropist (1837-1913)

• an American breed of small compact saddle horses

• lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance