Crossword clues for belladonna
belladonna
- Poisonous plant
- Perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries
- Extensively grown in United States
- Roots and leaves yield atropine
- Deadly nightshade
- Eye dilator
- Poisonous plant everyone rejected in section of garden close to Northern area
- Boy in Lebanon destroyed poisonous plant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Atropa \Atropa\ n. a genus of plants of the nightshade family, including the belladonna ( Atropa belladonna).
Syn: genus Atropa.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "deadly nightshade" (Atropa belladonna), from Italian, literally "fair lady;" the plant so called supposedly because women made cosmetic eye-drops from its juice (an 18c. explanation; atropic acid, found in the plant, has a well-known property of dilating the pupils) or because it was used to poison beautiful women. Perhaps a folk etymology alteration; Gamillscheg suggests ultimately of Gaulish origin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a plant, ''Atropa belladonna'', having purple bell-shaped flowers and poisonous black glossy berries; deadly nightshade 2 an alkaloid extracted from this plant, sometimes used medicinally, containing atropine
WordNet
n. perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine [syn: deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna]
an alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna herb that is used medicinally
Wikipedia
Belladonna is an Italian Rock noir band.
Belladonna or Bella Donna may refer to:
Belladonna is the second book in Anne Bishop's Landscapes of Ephemera. Following Sebastian, Belladonna continues the story of the battle between the Light and Dark of Ephemera, and Glorianna Belladonna's struggle to destroy, or cage the Eater of the World before it can convert the worlds into a massive playground to use for its own dark purposes. Belladonna also introduces into the duology Michael, a wandering musician who seeks the answer to the riddle that has been haunting his dreams, and whose arrival into the lives of all the original characters has catastrophic and far-reaching consequences for everyone.
Belladonna (born Michelle Anne Sinclair; May 21, 1981) is an American former pornographic actress, pornographic film director, actress and producer. She has retired from acting and directing pornography and has been involved in other interests, including non-pornographic acting.
Belladonna is a 2005 studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter and producer Daniel Lanois who, according to his website, took the techniques he developed with Brian Eno and went on to produce career albums for Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, and Emmylou Harris. This journey comes full circle on Belladonna, an instrumental record that captures the often tense emotional dynamics of Eno's pioneering releases. Dense textures evolve into delicate Mexican melodies, capturing the disquieting serenity of American southwest landscapes. This is Lanois' self-proclaimed defining moment.
One track on the album, "The Deadly Nightshade", had earlier been released on a 1996 album by Geoffrey Oryema as "LPJ Christine", although the version on Belladonna is without Oryema's vocals.
Belladonna is a 2015 Croatian drama film written and directed by Dubravka Turić. It was awarded Best Short Film at the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival. It was also screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
Usage examples of "belladonna".
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Something about poison and Belladonna and the dissolution of a partnership.
Malone, thank heaven, was sleeping peace Belladonna fully, but he was young compared to Chen-Li.
I thought it said that Belladonna was mad, but now I realize that Bella came at the end of one line and Donna at the beginning of the next one.
The poison of Belladonna is gone, and with it, I think, your own ghosts.
On examination, it had proved that Wilhelmina Spencer-Brown had died of heart failure, owing to a massive dose of belladonna, which, since she had not eaten since a light breakfast, appeared to have been consumed in some ginger-flavored tonic cordial, the only substance in the stomach at the time of death.
Tormod Lagarde had finally proved too much for him, and when Alston had learned that she was still enamored, he had procured more belladonna from some other doctor, in the city, poured it into the cordial, and left it to do its work.
The discovery my father and I made that summer came to be known, in academic circles, as the Belladonna Document.
Glorianna Belladonna was the Landscaper who had created the Den of Iniquity.
And what is left will belong to Belladonna and will be a dark place full of terrors.
Picking up the yarn bag, which now held a change of clothes, a few coins, and the letter to Belladonna, she held out her other hand.
An enema containing 80 grains of belladonna root has been followed in five hours by death, and Taylor has mentioned recovery after the ingestion of three drams of belladonna.
In some cases the idiosyncrasy to belladonna is so marked that violent symptoms follow the application of the ordinary belladonna plaster.
Maddox describes a ease of poisoning in a music teacher by the belladonna plaster of a reputable maker.
Golden mentions two cases in which the application of belladonna ointment to the breasts caused suppression of the secretion of milk.