stramonium

American  

[struh-moh-nee-uhm] / strəˈmoʊ ni əm /

noun

1. jimson weed.

2. the dried leaves of the jimson weed, used in medicine as an analgesic, antispasmodic, etc.

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stramonium British  

/ strəˈməʊnɪəm /

noun

1. a preparation of the dried leaves and flowers of the thorn apple, containing hyoscyamine and formerly used as a drug to treat asthma

2. another name for thorn apple

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Etymology

Origin of stramonium

1655–65; < New Latin < ?

Example Sentences

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stramonium

These contain thorn apple, a common term for the botanist's Datura stramonium, also known as Jimson weed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The New Haven colony passed a law at an early date to force the destruction of a "great stinking poisonous weed," which is said to have been the Datura stramonium, a medicinal herb.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse

But the case is different with cocculus indicus, and stramonium, and sulphuric acid, and sugar of lead, and the like.

From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)

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 Kephart, Horace

And even this supposition, would only account for the appearance of a single stramonium plant or two, not for a thick bed of it covering the entire ground.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.