hyoscyamus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hyoscyamus
1700–10; < New Latin < Greek hyoskýamos, equivalent to hyós (genitive of hŷs hog) + kýamos bean
Example Sentences
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This fluid is henbane —that is the commercial name of it—known to the profession, however, as hyoscyamus or hyoscyamine.
From Raspberry Jam by Carolyn Wells
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
In fact it is closely allied to hyoscyamus, whose active principle, hyoscin, is used in modern medicine precisely for such purposes.
From The Evolution of the Dragon by G. Elliot Smith
Make into sixty pills with extract of hyoscyamus.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
The pill of aloin, strychnine sulphate, and extract of cascara, with the addition of a small quantity of hyoscyamus, is a mild tonic purgative.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
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