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Belladonna genus
Answer for the clue "Belladonna genus ", 6 letters:
atropa
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Word definitions for atropa in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Atropa \Atropa\ n. a genus of plants of the nightshade family, including the belladonna ( Atropa belladonna ). Syn: genus Atropa .
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Atropa is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae : tall, calcicole , herbaceous perennials ( rhizomatous hemicryptophytes ), bearing large leaves and glossy berries particularly dangerous to children, due to their combination of ...
Usage examples of atropa.
As I drew nearer I noticed for the first time that it was not the common nightshade, which grew wild about the country, but was the atropa, a plant not indigenous to California.
I sat down to enjoy the picture, I became aware of some one walking behind the great clumps of nightshade, and presently a young woman stepped from behind the atropa where Madre Moreno had that morning been picking the poisonous leaves, and walked across the hollow, stepping gracefully from stone to stone till she came to the bright spot where the sun was shining, and seating herself at the foot of the wall, opened a book and began to read aloud.
In this confection was the smallest quantity of the extract of the poisonous atropa, and some Chinese drug unknown to me, the taking of which in time became a necessity of my being, but not till to-night did I know the contents of these drops or the awful power to which I am a slave.