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 < ?

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

stramonium

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

From Time Magazine Archive

There was the fetid powder of stramonium, that grips the lungs like an asthma; and quinia, that shakes its victims like the cold hand of the miasma of the Pontine marshes.

From The Golden Dog by William Kirby

He was evidently affected by the stramonium; but how, I said to myself, can this be?

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

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 Alice Morse Earle

Give frequency and type of cutaneous disturbance due to the administration of stramonium.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon

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