stramonium
Americannoun
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a preparation of the dried leaves and flowers of the thorn apple, containing hyoscyamine and formerly used as a drug to treat asthma
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another name for thorn apple
Etymology
Origin of stramonium
1655–65; < New Latin < ?
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These contain thorn apple, a common term for the botanist's Datura stramonium, also known as Jimson weed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The basin of stramonium water adds its melancholy odor to the room.
From David Lockwin—The People's Idol by John McGovern
Various cigarettes and pastilles, usually containing stramonium and saltpeter, are sold by druggists for the use of asthmatic patients.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) by Kenelm Winslow
As the potato belongs to the botanical family containing the dangerous belladonna, tobacco, hyoscyamus, and stramonium, it is not surprising that is should also contain a powerful poisonous alkaloid, namely, solanine.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) by Kenelm Winslow
The thing puzzled me until I recalled that the Latin name of jimson weed is Datura stramonium; then, in a flash, it came to me that stramonium is a powerful mydriatic.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
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