datura
See also: Datura
English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
datura (plural daturas)
- A plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties. [from 16th c.]
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 5, member 1, subsection 5:
- Garcias ab Horto [...] makes mention of an herb called datura, “which, if it be eaten for twenty-four hours following, takes away all sense of grief, makes them incline to laughter and mirth” [...].
- 1895, Rudyard Kipling, “The King’s Ankus”, in The Second Jungle Book, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 188:
- "Apple of Death" is what the Jungle call thorn-apple or dhatura, the readiest poison in all India.
- 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 37:
- Datura did grow in Haiti, three species, all of them introduced from the Old World.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 38:
- It was a decoction of datura that wrung the truth from the old woman, by sending her into a trance from which she never recovered.
Related terms
Translations
A plant of the genus Datura
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Italian
Noun
datura f (plural dature)
- thorn apple (of genus Datura)
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) datūra
- nominative feminine singular of datūrus
- nominative neuter plural of datūrus
- accusative neuter plural of datūrus
- vocative feminine singular of datūrus
- vocative neuter plural of datūrus
Participle
(deprecated template usage) datūrā
References
- datura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)