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Meanings of atropa belladonna in English
Species of toxic flowering plant in the nightshade family.
Related terms
Perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine.
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Examples for "belladonna"
Examples for "belladonna"
1
That saddest of all changes she repaired by hand-massage, pomade, and belladonna.
2
Christ, Mark, I'll bet there isn't any belladonna within a five-hundred-mile radius.
3
Goethe had heard of Runge's groundbreaking investigation into belladonna, otherwise known as nightshade.
4
Sometimes it is advisable to paint the gland with belladonna ointment.
5
Simply because the criminal put a little atropine, or belladonna, with the morphine.
1
Baby's fat, juice of water parsnip, aconite, cinquefoil, deadly nightshade, and soot.
2
It was the deadly nightshade, and a handful of the berries spelt death.
3
Why, I found a stalk of deadly nightshade in my rose-bed last summer.
4
Water parsnip, sweet flag, cinquefoil, bat's blood, deadly nightshade, and oil.
5
The sorceress had thrown her into a trance by a preparation of deadly nightshade.
Usage of atropa belladonna in English
1
Hyoscyamine and scopolamine are two main alkaloids in Atropa belladonna with great medicinal value.
2
Nightshade ( Atropa belladonna) is immediately recognisable for its deep purple fruit and was said to be tended by the Devil himself.
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