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datura
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Datura \Da*tu"ra\, n. [NL.; cf. Skr. dhatt[=u]ra, Per. & Ar. tat[=u]ra, Tat[=u]la.] (Bot.) A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit. Note: The commonest species are the thorn apple ( D. stramonium ...
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Datura is a genus of nine species of poisonous vespertine flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae . They are commonly known as daturas, but also known as devil's trumpets , not to be confused with angel's trumpets , its closely related genus ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A plant of the genus ''Datura''.
Usage examples of datura.
Acolytes moved among the men with bowls of datura tea, and soon they were moving to the heavy beat.
Don Juan categorized the ally contained in Datura inoxia as having two qualities: it was woman-like, and it was a giver of superfluous power.
Datura stramonium, nocturnal movement of cotyledons, 298 Delpino, on cotyledons of Chaerophyllum and Corydalis, 96, n.
Datura stramonium, Jamestown Weed, Stinkweed, or Apple of Peru has narcotic, anodyne leaves and seeds.
Over there, datura stramonium, belladonna, hemlock: they can bring on drowsiness, stimulation, or both.
In general Stephen Maturin was a poor sleeper, and since his youth he had turned to a number of allies against the intolerable boredom - and sometimes far, far worse than boredom, he having a most vulnerable heart - of insomnia: poppy and mandragora being the most obvious, seconded by the inspissated juice of aconite or of henbane, by datura stramonium, creeping skerit, leopard's bane.
Angel's trumpet (also called datura, jimson weed, and thorn apple) has large, white, bell-shaped leaves.