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Definition of Datura

1. Noun. Thorn apple.

Definition of Datura

1. n. A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.

Definition of Datura

1. Noun. A plant of the genus ''Datura''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Datura

1. a flowering plant [n -S] : DATURIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Datura

1. A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit. The commonest species are the thorn apple (D. Stramonium), with a prickly capsule, white flowers and green stem, and D. Tatula, with a purplish tinge of the stem and flowers. Both are narcotic and dangerously poisonous. Origin: NL.; cf. Skr. Dhattra, Per. & Ar. Tatra, Tatla. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Datura

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

1. Phytopathology by American Phytopathological Society (1917)
"Throughout the literature the early blight organism is claimed to be the cause of the leaf-spot of Jimson weed (datura, various species) ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1894)
"It was, hence, for the double purpose of verifying them and comparing with them the alkaloidal contents of June-grown datura stramonium that the following ..."

3. 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, ..."

4. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanbury (1879)
"Seeds and Leaves of the Indian or White-flowered datura. ... History—The mediaeval Arabian physicians were familiar with datura alba, which is well ..."

5. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1864)
"More O'Farrall, MP, who has been governor of Malta says: "that datura ... I induced him to give the datura tatula a trial; and the last time I saw bim he ..."

6. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"Hence it is desirable that preparations should be made from the recent herb if possible. datura. datura Stramonium Linne.—Stramonium, Thorn- Apple ..."

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