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"
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That saddest of all changes she repaired by hand-massage, pomade, and belladonna.
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Christ, Mark, I'll bet there isn't any belladonna within a five-hundred-mile radius.
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Goethe had heard of Runge's groundbreaking investigation into belladonna, otherwise known as nightshade.
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Sometimes it is advisable to paint the gland with belladonna ointment.
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Simply because the criminal put a little atropine, or belladonna, with the morphine.
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Baby's fat, juice of water parsnip, aconite, cinquefoil, deadly nightshade, and soot.
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It was the deadly nightshade, and a handful of the berries spelt death.
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Why, I found a stalk of deadly nightshade in my rose-bed last summer.
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Water parsnip, sweet flag, cinquefoil, bat's blood, deadly nightshade, and oil.
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The sorceress had thrown her into a trance by a preparation of deadly nightshade.
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Hyoscyamine and scopolamine are two main alkaloids in Atropa belladonna with great medicinal value.
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Nightshade ( Atropa belladonna) is immediately recognisable for its deep purple fruit and was said to be tended by the Devil himself.