Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A poisonous Eurasian plant (Hyoscyamus niger) in the nightshade family, having a strong odor, sticky leaves, and funnel-shaped greenish-yellow flowers. It is a source of hyoscyamine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus, natural order Solanaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (
Hyoscyamus niger ). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also,stinking nightshade , from the fetid odor of the plant. Seehyoscyamus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
poisonous plant , Hyoscyamus niger, used sometimes as adrug that causes at leasthallucinations ,dilated pupils ,restlessness , andflushed skin . - noun Any other plant of the genus Hyoscyamus.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves and yellow-brown flowers; yields hyoscyamine and scopolamine
Etymologies
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Examples
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Celebrity (their word, he means nothing to me) chef Antony Worrall Thompsonis quoted in a magazine interview about watercress and other wild foods saying that the weed henbane is "great in salads".
Media Maxine 2009
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Celebrity (their word, he means nothing to me) chef Antony Worrall Thompsonis quoted in a magazine interview about watercress and other wild foods saying that the weed henbane is "great in salads".
August 2008 Maxine 2008
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Celebrity (their word, he means nothing to me) chef Antony Worrall Thompsonis quoted in a magazine interview about watercress and other wild foods saying that the weed henbane is "great in salads".
Waiter, there's poison in my soup Maxine 2008
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Celebrity (their word, he means nothing to me) chef Antony Worrall Thompsonis quoted in a magazine interview about watercress and other wild foods saying that the weed henbane is "great in salads".
Waiter, there's poison in my soup Maxine 2008
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According to the BBC: "Healthy & Organic Living magazine's website has now issued an urgent warning that" henbane is a very toxic plant and should never be eaten ".
Media Maxine 2009
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According to the BBC: "Healthy & Organic Living magazine's website has now issued an urgent warning that" henbane is a very toxic plant and should never be eaten ".
Waiter, there's poison in my soup Maxine 2008
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According to the BBC: "Healthy & Organic Living magazine's website has now issued an urgent warning that" henbane is a very toxic plant and should never be eaten ".
August 2008 Maxine 2008
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According to the BBC: "Healthy & Organic Living magazine's website has now issued an urgent warning that" henbane is a very toxic plant and should never be eaten ".
Waiter, there's poison in my soup Maxine 2008
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Do you know when I was ill I was made to take henbane, which is a drug that has the power to make one's eyes magnify like a microscope.
Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter August Strindberg 1880
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17H21NO4, extracted from plants such as henbane and used primarily as a mydriatic and sedative, and to treat nausea and prevent motion sickness.
Word of the Day 2008
slumry commented on the word henbane
Hyoscyamus niger
August 1, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word henbane
"At Bethlehem Hospital Crippen added a new drug to his basket, hydrobromide of hyoscine, derived from an herb of the nightshade family, Hyoscyamus niger, known more commonly as henbane."
—Erik Larson, Thunderstruck (New York: Crown Publishers, 2006), 33
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July 7, 2009