DATURA
\dˈat͡ʃəɹə], \dˈatʃəɹə], \d_ˈa_tʃ_ə_ɹ_ə]\
Definitions of DATURA
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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One of the very toxic Solanaceae, Datura stramonium, also called thornapple and jimsonweed. It contains the same alkaloids as in Belladonna and causes toxicity to cattle and other grazers.
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[Latin] A genus of solanaceous plants. Stramonium furnishes stramonium; D. alba of India is used like stramonium.
By Alexander Duane
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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