Definition of Datura stramonium

1. Noun. Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Datura Stramonium

Dasyurus quoll
Dasyurus viverrinus
Dat.
Data Carrier Equipment
Data Carrier Equipments
Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
Data Circuit-Terminating Equipments
Data Communications Equipment
Data Communications Equipments
Datiwuy
Datong
Datril
Datura arborea
Datura poisoning
Datura sanguinea
Datura stramonium (current term)
Datura suaveolens
Daubenton
Daubenton's angle
Daubenton's line
Daubenton's plane
Daubentonia
Daubentonia madagascariensis
Daubentoniidae
Daucus
Daucus carota
Daucus carota sativa
Dauerschlaf
Daugava
Daugavpils

Literary usage of Datura stramonium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1865)
"pd On Datura stramonium and Datura Tatula. ... object of this paper was to show that Datura stramonium and D. Tatula were identical in points of structure, ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1897)
"Soc., 6f, I. COMPARATIVE STRUCTURE OF THE LEAVES OF Datura stramonium, ... Datura stramonium. The leaves are described as five or six inches long: petiolate ..."

3. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1813)
"... to the Datura stramonium, or Thorn Apple: as a Cure or Relief of Asthma: addressed to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine; several of them never before ..."

4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1815)
"Communications relative to the Datura stramonium, or Thorn- apple : as a Cure or Relief of Asthma : addressed to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine . ..."

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