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Stramonium

Stramonium \Stra*mo"ni*um\, n. [NL.; Cf. F. stramoine.] (Bot.) A poisonous plant ( Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.

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stramonium

n. 1 The jimsonweed plant 2 A narcotic drug obtained from the dried leaves of this plant.

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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.

Take one pound of the leaves of stramonium (Jamestown weed) bruised.