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D stramonium
(gcide) | 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.
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Note: The commonest species are the thorn apple ({D.
stramonium}), with a prickly capsule (see Illust. of
capsule), white flowers and green stem, and {Datura
tatula}, with a purplish tinge of the stem and flowers.
Both are narcotic and dangerously poisonous.
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Datura stramonium
(gcide) | Jamestown weed \James"town` weed`\ (Bot.)
The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium ({Datura
stramonium}), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown,
Virginia. See Datura.
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Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and
gympsum.
[1913 Webster]Stramonium \Stra*mo"ni*um\, n. [NL.; Cf. F. stramoine.] (Bot.)
A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See
Datura, and Jamestown weed.
[1913 Webster]Atropine \At"ro*pine\, n. [Gr. ? inflexible; hence ? ?, one of
the three Parc[ae]; 'a priv. + ? to turn.] (Chem.)
A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from
the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the
Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its
power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also
daturine.
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Datura Stramonium
(gcide) | Jamestown weed \James"town` weed`\ (Bot.)
The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium ({Datura
stramonium}), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown,
Virginia. See Datura.
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Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and
gympsum.
[1913 Webster]Stramonium \Stra*mo"ni*um\, n. [NL.; Cf. F. stramoine.] (Bot.)
A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See
Datura, and Jamestown weed.
[1913 Webster]Atropine \At"ro*pine\, n. [Gr. ? inflexible; hence ? ?, one of
the three Parc[ae]; 'a priv. + ? to turn.] (Chem.)
A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from
the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the
Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its
power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also
daturine.
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datura stramonium
(wn) | Datura stramonium
n 1: intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having
rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped
flowers and prickly fruits [syn: jimsonweed, {jimson
weed}, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, {apple of
Peru}, Datura stramonium] |
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