Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The thorn-apple, Datura Stramonium: so called particularly as a drug-plant.
  • noun An officinal drug consisting of the seeds or leaves of stramonium, the seeds being more powerful. Its properties are the same as those of belladonna. See belladonna and Datura.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See datura, and jamestown weed.

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Examples

  • “Vanguini” of the Cafres, called by the Portuguese dutro (Datura Stramonium) still used by dishonest confectioners.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But there is a finer line with Stramonium because the quantities needed to achieve this altered state and the amounts required for a possibly lethal overdose are very close together, very.

    The Solanaceae’s the Mafia family of the Plant world 2007

  • It is the tropane alkaloids in Stramonium that goes hand in hand with its reputation.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • It is the tropane alkaloids in Stramonium that goes hand in hand with its reputation.

    The Solanaceae’s the Mafia family of the Plant world 2007

  • The tropane alkaloids present in Stramonium are considered one of the few true hallucinogenic compounds that cause hallucinations that are indistinguishable from perceived reality.

    The Solanaceae’s the Mafia family of the Plant world 2007

  • But there is a finer line with Stramonium because the quantities needed to achieve this altered state and the amounts required for a possibly lethal overdose are very close together, very.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • Eat some more, and don't wake up - Dine Navaho reference to Stramonium consumption.

    The Solanaceae’s the Mafia family of the Plant world 2007

  • The tropane alkaloids present in Stramonium are considered one of the few true hallucinogenic compounds that cause hallucinations that are indistinguishable from perceived reality.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • Eat some more, and don't wake up - Dine Navaho reference to Stramonium consumption.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • Il est galement envisag une extraction semi industrielle de matire premire partir de plants mdicinales pour une formulation mdicamenteuse dont le Datura Stramonium (solanacae).

    Chapter 7 1991

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