magic potion
English
Alternative forms
- Magic Potion
Noun
magic potion (plural magic potions)
- A colour morph of the common pill-bug (Armadillidium vulgare), characterised by a mostly white body that is dotted with yellow and black spots.
- 2021 November 9, OrangeBandito21, reddit.com[1]:
- Magic potions are probably my favorite isopod[s]. I got some from Eddie recently. So far they are pretty easy- can’t wait for them to grow up a bit and reproduce.
- 2022 February, @verinium, “I think i figured out what magic potions like by accident”, in community.morphmarket.com[2]:
- So, my magic potions have been struggling since i got them, they were very inactive, and some were suiciding themselves by escaping. I knew they needed good air flow, a drink source, and food, as well as proper temps.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see magic, potion.
- 1971 July 18, “Essence of Midsummer”, in The New York Times[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 November 2025:
- The legends do not say whether Asclepius used milkweed juice in his magic potions or not, but later herbalists certainly did.