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datura en · NOUN

Etymology

From the genus name.

Meanings

1. A plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties.
   • "Apple of Death" is what the Jungle call thorn-apple or dhatura, the readiest poison in all India. 1895, Rudyard Kipling, “The King’s Ankus”, in The Second Jungle Book, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 188:
   • "Suffice it that it was of the datura family which supplies deadly poisons as well as powerful medicines." 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
   • 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. 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 38:
   • 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” [...]. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 5, member 1, subsection 5:
   • Datura did grow in Haiti, three species, all of them introduced from the Old World. 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 37:

Forms

Deriveds

daturism

Relateds

daturilin · datumetixone · daturilinol · datumetine · daturametelin

Translations (8)

de Datura (A plant of the genus Datura) · bg татул (A plant of the genus Datura) · az tatula (A plant of the genus Datura) · el δατούρα (A plant of the genus Datura) · fr datura (A plant of the genus Datura) · az dəlibəng (A plant of the genus Datura) · el ντατούρα (A plant of the genus Datura) · fi hulluruoho (A plant of the genus Datura)